Fallacy City by Gandhi

We all know who Gandhi is. That frail man who made India's revolution a peaceful one. It's amazing how uneducated people (in terms of rhetoric) fall blindly into a black hole of false logic. His speech has too many fallacies to be undetected.

Hasty generalization: It is this unseen power which makes itself felt and yet defies all proof, because it is so unlike all that I perceive through my senses.

I'm absolutely sure what Gandhi perceives through his senses is not all the proof they got. I mean, the guy wore glasses. On we go with a false dilemma: 

"Even in ordinary affairs we know that people do not know who rules or why and how He rules and yet they know that there is a power that certainly rules." 

There are so many religions! Scientology doesn't even have a God. There are more options than just thinking there is a power that rules and not knowing what this power is because when people have a religion they are certain about what this power is. Gandhi also uses ignorance as proof.

"In my tour last year in Mysore I met many poor villagers and I found upon inquiry that they did not know who ruled Mysore." 

Gandhi didn't ask every single villager. I bet he asked a few and came up with this hasty generalization. 

They simply said some God ruled it. If the knowledge of these poor people was so limited about their ruler I who am infinitely lesser in respect to God than they to their ruler need not be surprised if I do not realize the presence of God - the King of Kings.

Then I thought "King of Kings" was a tautology. It seems a tautology is different words with the same meaning, thus this idea was wrong. 

"I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever dying there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates. That informing power of spirit is God, and since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is."

Just because Gandhi doesn't see anything that he can consider "the informing spirit of God," it just is. This is both a misinterpretation of the evidence and an example of the fallacy of ignorance. It's amazing Gandhi was able to fit two fallacies in one sentence.

"And is this power benevolent or malevolent ? I see it as purely benevolent, for I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists." 

False dilemma alarm. This idea makes no sense! How can Gandhi say there is only white (benevolence) when all he does is mix it with black (malevolence)? Theres is a spectrum of greys that result from this idea! 

"Where there is realization outside the senses it is infallible."

Fallacy of ignorance.  

"It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within. Such testimony is to be found in the experiences of an unbroken line of prophets and sages in all countries and climes. To reject this evidence is to deny oneself."

Reductio ad absurdum AND complex cause fallacy.

"I confess that I have no argument to convince through reason."

Dude, we noticed.