भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

such a constitutional development a success, to stand by Law and Order, which is the very foundation and basis of Society in general and Hindu polity in particular. Do not the Scots or ever the Majorities of the Boers choose to maintain a partnership in the Empire when that Empire opens better facilities for their respective developments than otherwise? India too and for the matter of that, any other people ought to and naturally will join in forming a Commonwealth and an Empire. Why should they be against it? When such a common life promises to be more fruitful than divided petty and lonely individuality? As man is Social animal, so is also a state. And Empires had been and would be as natural a development of the inherent tendencies of the social nature of man as nations and families had been. Well my dear Bal, I have been getting fever for the last two days, as I have caught a cold and so find it necessary to leave much that I meant to write to you. Please take care of your health, and do not worry on our account or any other account. Take things easy. Please not to forget what I told you about our family affairs when you met me, try to save a little and spend less. Dear Yamuna promised me to send a very very big parcel of almonds and candy and sweets and what not at an early date. But being very very big, it is quite natural that it is taking months to pack it up. It was indeed a pleasure to see her and know how she is as courageous and as sweet as ever. But poor Vahini! Half the joy of any release fades into apthy at the thought of my going back to a home, where she is not likely to come to welcome me! My earliest friend, my sister, my mother and my comrade—in one, all at once, she really died as dies a suttee! Did she not immolate her silent soul and even at the altar of our Motherland? Ah! as truly as martyr dies for his Land or Religion, do these Indian girls of today die panting, withering, watching for the return of their lovers who are not destined to meet them, suffering in silence, serving though unknown, paying though unacknowledged—do these Hindu girls pine away and die for their Motherland, for their religion. Woman in general is sweet beyond measure! But a Hindu girl—good, good good. She inflames not but soothes, remembers though forgotten each and an ever newly-published edition of the Immortal Story of Sita! Dear Baba asks me to tell you to console Mathutai especially on his behalf; he feels more for her than our dear Vahini herself. Nothing pleased me so much as to find you quite healthy and bubbling over with life when I saw you here. Always try to be as healthy and more. I am totally unable both owing to the intensity of my feeling and