The translation had the benefit of Gandhiji's revision. “My purpose,” writes Gandhiji in the Introduction of the book, “being to give an account of various practical applications of the principles of Truth and Non-violence, I have given the chapters the title of The Story of My Experiments with Truth. My purpose is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagrah, not to say how good I am. In judging myself I shall try to be as harsh as truth, as I want others also to be.”