The universe of man is much bigger than individuals. Do not get bogged down in the study of single personalities alone of your specific choice to the exclusion of all else.
Although the heart of human social movements centres on the individual, often of exceptional merit and extraordinary power which the collective mass of humanity in following them lend unto them, it is principles that are to be understood which manifest through the prism of personality, and it is the corresponding world events of momentous significance that are to be comprehended which are the resolution of the labour of countless individuals lost to history.
The broadening of vision from the mere adulation of the individual leader to the apprehension of the historical process at work is the work cut out for the common mass of humanity who are apt to lose their way in life in such narrow hero-worship or narrower entertainment of hatred of leaders in the supposedly adversarial camp.
Unto a fuller understanding of history then is my exhortation unto my countrymen who have pitted Netaji against Gandhiji for God knows to what good effect.
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