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The Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in the eighteenth century that “civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.” In Indian Home Rule, Mahatma Gandhi seemed to concur, and he concluded that “civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.” What is the basis of Gandhi’s critique of “Western Civilization,” and how does he link this critique to an argument in favor of Indian home rule?