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As this is the final volume of my Message series, it completes a work, which I first set myself to do twenty-five years ago. That work had two objectives, one general, the other special. The former was to carry on a Comparative Study of the great religions of the world by winnowing out their leading ideas and tenets and presenting them in a form and language immediately applicable to our times and surrounding. The special objective was to create, as far as I could, a Spiritual Unity in my native land of India, replacing the clash of religious differences prevailing there. I realized even then that if ever there was to be peace and harmony, and mutual understanding of each other's feelings and sentiments, in the 'warring world of Hindustan,' it would be, not by vociferously proclaiming Hindu-Muslim Unity, but by systematically carrying on a comparative study of the great religions of the world, and increasingly proving (as I attempt to do in my Messages) that, in spite of manifest divergences in creed and in modes of worship, there is yet a basic and a demonstrable unity of thought and ideals among the various faiths which at present sway the mind and guide the impulse of the antagonistic nationalists of India.