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I made some changes to the original posting.
The original post:
Gandhi's paraphrase
editUnto This Lasthad a very important impact onGandhi's philosophy. He discovered the book in March1904throughHenry Polak,who he had met in a vegetarian restaurant inSouth Africa.Polak was chief editor of theJohannesburgpaperThe Critic.Gandhi decided immediately not only to change his own life according to Ruskin's teaching, but also to publish his own newspaper,Indian Opinion,in a farm where everybody would get the same salary, without distinction of function, race or nationality, which for that time, was quite revolutionary. Thus Gandhi createdPhoenix Settlement.
Gandhi adaptedUnto This LastinGujaratiin1908under the title ofSarvodaya( "well being of all" ).It is also the name he gave to his philosophy.Valji Govindji Desaitranslated it back to English in1951under the title ofUnto This Last: A Paraphrase.
InUnto This Last,Gandhi found an important part of his social and economic ideas. Ruskin was concerned with the same problems and proposed the same solutions as Gandhi's own.
Changes:
1. some minor grammar. 2. The name that Gandhi gave to his philosophy is Satyagraha, and not the stated Sarvodaya. Gandhi's philosophy of Satyagraha is combination word deriving from Sanskrit meaning the force of truth. (graha=force; sat=truth). 3. In the final paragraph, I took out the final sentence because (1) I am not sure that "same" is appropriate; and (2) because it doesn't seem necessary. JSteinbeck2(talk)16:54, 9 January 2008 (UTC)