During the twelve years since the Nobel award, Tagore has translated several of his earlier poems, plays and tales and has written _My Reminiscences_, one of the most illumining autobiographies of the last decade. He has expanded his ideas on government, education and religion in books like _Nationalism_ and _Creative Unity_. He has written _Prayers for Mother India_--that she may be raised from her chronic want to a place of influence and success. He has urged united action by the people of England and those of India to bring about this material union. He has said, “One section of the human race cannot be permanently strong by depriving another section of its inherent rights.” Taking as his text that mooted line from Kipling, Oh, East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet-- Tagore said, at a banquet in London: “I have learned that, though our tongues are different and our habits dissimilar, at the bottom of our hearts we are one.... East is East and West is West--God forbid that it should be otherwise--but the twain must meet in amity, peace and mutual understanding; their meeting will be all the more fruitful because of their differences; it must lead both to holy wedlock before the common altar of Humanity.” In the sympathetic, analytical study of _Mahatma Gandhi_ by Romain Rolland, there are some excellent sentences of comparison of these two religious leaders of modern India. “Tagore looked upon Gandhi as a saint,” says M. Rolland, and he deplored his political activities, especially his non-coöperation doctrine. Tagore seeks and finds harmony in coöperation. He wrote, “My prayer is that India may represent the coöperation of all the peoples of the world. For India, unity is truth, and division evil.” In summary, the French writer says, “To my mind Gandhi is as universal as Tagore, but in a different way. Gandhi is a universalist through his religious feeling; Tagore is intellectually universal. While venerating him, (Gandhi) we understand and approve Tagore.”[99] In _Creative Unity_, Tagore has included an essay upon “The Nation” in which he stresses “the fight” to-day between “the living spirit of the people” and the methods of organizing nations.