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76 I Ramnath
consciousness, by punching a hole in the complacent
fu nctioning of an intolerable system.
The Indian Sociologist wrote of the "Indian propagandists
and the physical force party, with whose implacable
hostility, it admits, the English will probably always have
to reckon."6s This physical force partly alluded to precisely
that tendency the British identified as anarchist. A chain of
correspondence had been activated by which physical fo rce
equaled shakti equaled power equaled energy equaled the
bomb-that is, the pure manifestation of such energy; or
by an alternate route, physical force equaled karma yoga
equaled action in the world equaled direct action equaled
propaganda of the deed ... equaled the bomb.
Another passage read, "An immense and incalculable
revolution is at hand, and its instruments must be themselves
immense in their aspiration, uncalculating in the
self-immolation." Following further calls to self-sacrifice fo r
the greater good, the author concluded that "the fair hope
of an orderly and peaceful evolution of self-government,
which the first energies of the new movement had fostered,
are gone fo rever. Revolution. b