4. TWO DAYS IN NIZAMUDDIN

4. TWO DAYS IN NIZAMUDDIN ~ 118 ~ and logical grounds, but that it is impossible to prove anything by reason, even in this age of reason. If any rational movement has ever succeeded, it is not by dint of logical arguments, but because, by chance or by accident, it contained certain emotional aspects as well. We can furnish some instances from Socialism, Democracy, Evolution and so on. It is a fact that Socialism, up till now, has yet to be established by the standards of pure reason. Democracy has been exposed to innumerable objections, to which no satisfactory answer has yet been given. The theory of biological evolution, from the academic point of view, has so many flaws that it can at best be described as a belief rather than a theory. The success of these theories does not lie in their being rational and logical arguments, but in their having benefited from an emotional environment which already existed. To prove something by means of pure logic and reason is indeed to attempt to catch a phoenix which has yet to exist. But there are other factors which we can put to good use. They are nature and tradition. It is no exaggeration to say that, even