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

regards the political situation in India, especially with reference to those questions, which from time-to-time are still being discussed and debated upon in the official circles and have been personally pressed before me by some of them only very recently. We believe in an universal state embracing all mankind and wherein all men and women would be citizens working for and enjoying equally the fruits of this earth and this sun, this land and this light, which constitute the real Motherland and the Fatherland of man. All other divisions and distinctions are artificial, though indispensable. Believing thus that the ideal of all political science and art is or ought to be Human state in which all nations merge their political selves for their own fulfilment even as the cells in an organism, organisms in families and tribes, and tribes in nation-states have done; and believing, therefore, that humanity is higher patriotism and, therefore, any Empire or Commonwealth that succeeds in welding numbers of conflicting races and nations in one harmonious, if not homogenious whole, in such wory as to render each of them better fitted to realize, enrich and enjoy life in all its noble aspects is a distinct step to the realization of that ideal I can conscientiously co-operate with any attempt to found a commonwealth, which would be neither British nor Indian but which may, till a better name be devised, be styled as an Aryan Commonwealth. With this end in view, I ever worked in the past. With this end in view, I am willing to work now. And therefore, I rejoiced to hear that the Government has changed its angle of vision and meant to make it possible for India to advance constitutionally on the path to freedom and strength and fulness of life. I am sure that many a revolutionist would, like me, cry halt under such circumstances and try to meet England under an honourable truce, even in a halfway house as the reformed Council Halls promised to be, and work there, before a further march on to progress be sounded. For, it was this very principle that humanity was a higher patriotism that made us so restless when we saw that a part or it should aggrandise and swell like a virulent cancer in such wise as to threaten the life of the human whole; and forced us for the want of any other effective remedy, to take to the surgeon's knife and feel that severity for the moment would certainly be mercy in the long run. But even while combating force with force, we heartily abhorred and do yet abhor all violence. For violence is force aggressively used—force that is life killing. I never cherished, not even in my dreams, any aggressive ambition for personal or national