Gandhi is respected.
Gandhi is Indian.
Gandhi is respected because he is Indian.
No.
Apparently, in 1931, Gandhi gave a speech.
Now that we know about fallacies better, I'll try to expose as many fallacies as I can. Knowing me, that's going to be about three or four.
"Even in ordinary affairs we know that people do not know who rules or why and how He rules and yet they know that there is a power that certainly rules."
Hasty generalization. How do you know that applies to all people?
"It is not a blind law, for no blind law can govern the conduct of living being and thanks to the marvelous researches of Sir J. C. Bose it can now be proved that even matter is life."
Tautology and false dilemma. You're basically saying that because it is not a blind law, it is not a blind law. Moreover, you're assuming that a law is either blind or it is not. This isn't probably true, since it has been scientifically proven that laws can also be deaf or dumb.
"I may not deny the law or the law-giver because I know so little about it or Him."
Wrong ending and many questions. Maybe. One, the first part doesn't necessarily lead to the latter, and two, this implies that the law or the law-giver definitely exist. Either that or I'm just making stuff up because of a nitrogen overdose.
"...humble and mute acceptance of divine authority makes life's journey easier even as the acceptance of earthly rule makes life under it easier."
False comparison. Don't go comparing acceptance of divine authority with acceptance of earthly rule. That's pretty much a false analogy.
"That informing power of spirit is God, and since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is."
Uh... I'm not sure. But it's a fallacy.
"And is this power benevolent or malevolent?"
False dilemma. Does it have to be one or the other?
"Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. "
Generalization?
"To reject this evidence is to deny oneself."
Misinterpreting the evidence?
"I confess that I have no argument to convince through reason."
Okay.
"All that I can advise is not to attempt the impossible."
I'm sleepy, and thus, the previous statement is weird. That's the last sentence of the speech, and it ends the thing in a cliche-ish note. Yay.
The cake was there to distract you.
That is all for now.
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