Real Revolution — Page 69
69 such order is extremely painful for them and they fail to understand why other people want to interfere with them. "If we find it more convenient to go about naked, what right has anybody to force us to wear garments. Our limbs are freer. and we get more air if we remain naked; and in any case it suits us. Why should anybody want to interfere with our personal likes and dislikes?". At one stage during their colonial administration in some parts of Africa, when the British began to persuade the primitive natives to wear clothes, on the out-skirts of towns officials were posted with supplies of wearing apparel, to be given over to natives coming from the bush to put on before they entered the city. With great reluctance the natives put them on, but felt very embarrassed in them, casting furtive glances to right and left, lest there be some one from among their own people who might see them in this disgraceful condition. . When with clothes on they happened to run across each other, they passed by with closed eyes, which 'meant that they were ashamed to have been caught in this condition. No wonder, then, that as soon as they had finished their business in the town, they flung the clothes at the official concerned at the post, and ran into the bush. . Not to speak of the primitive people in Africa and other parts of the world who still have an