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== Mohandas Gandhi's paraphrase ==
''Unto This Last'' had a very important impact on [[Mohandas K. Gandhi|Gandhi]]'s philosophy.<ref>[http://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/humantouch.htm Gandhi's Human Touch<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He discovered the book in March 1904 through Henry Polak, whom he had met in a [[vegetarian]] restaurant in [[South Africa]]. Polak was sub-editor of the [[Johannesburg]] paper ''The 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]]'', from a farm where everybody would get the same salary, without distinction of function, race, or nationality. This, for that time, was quite revolutionary. Thus Gandhi created ''[[Phoenix Settlement]]''.
Mohandas Gandhi translated ''Unto This Last'' into [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] in 1908 under the title of ''[[Sarvodaya]]'' (''Well Being of All''). Valji Govindji Desai translated it back to English in 1951 under the title of ''Unto This Last: A Paraphrase''.<ref name="Unto this last">{{cite book |last= Gandhi |first= M. K. |authorlink= |title= Unto this Last: A paraphrase |url= http://wikilivres.ca/wiki/Unto_This_Last_%E2%80%94_M._K._Gandhi |year= |publisher=Navajivan Publishing House |location= Ahmedabad |language= English|isbn= 81-7229-076-4|format=PDF}}</ref> This last essay can be considered his program on economics, as in ''Unto This Last'', Gandhi found an important part of his social and economic ideas.
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