Explanation:

• Mahatma Gandhi was inspired by people as well as books.Tolstoy and Gandhi corresponded regularly. Both had similar views on truth and morality and both had the same heroes - Buddha, Socrates and Mohammed. Tolstoy's book 'The Kingdom of God is within you' overwhelmed Gandhi.
• Ruskin's book 'Unto this Last' had cast a magic spell on Gandhi so much so that he paraphrased the book as 'Sarvodaya' and decided to teach from it.)
• Henry David Thoreau philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of Mahatma Gandhi.
• Mothers are hardly ever pitied,” wrote Maxim Gorky is about the pre-revolution proletariat of Russia and focuses on the role women played in the struggle of the Russian working class on the eve of the revolution of 1905.Hence statement 1st is incorrect.