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

foremost thing to be effected in that direction is to restore to love her sole
privilege and right of presiding over the wedding rights. Indeed, we can no
longer be blind to the fact that we care more for the good breeding of cattle
and fowls than for the Eugenics of man. Centuries of child marriages and
marriages by proxies! Centuries of love banished from its legitimate sphere
of influence to attract and develop elements that tend to the betterment of
body and mind and soul; and the inevitable result is a race puny, debilitated,
all vigour and manhood sapped out of it. Thousand things have wrought this
and the marriage customs that prevail in us are one of the few important
factors contributing to it. Authorities should come in to sanctify but not to
silence love altogether. And glad was I, therefore, that the age, the
education, the part that mutual attraction and esteem played in welding your
hearts together and above all, the sanction of all those who feel drawn
towards us should have enabled you to have realized that in which I thought
our family should not lag behind. Or in short, when dear Bhau has
sanctified it with his blessings, it goes without saying that it must have been
just after my heart.
And now Doctor Saheb, where are you going to settle? Only yesterday, I
was told to write this second letter as the first had been lost in the post
office by accident. Although it must have cost you a lot of anxiety, to me it
enabled to know your present address. From that, I see you are in Bombay,
at present. Would you settle in that unhealthy and cramped in city! Would
not the rising free Baroda suit better where the enlightened prince Sayaji
rules? But all that as you choose and not I—for you are on the spot and
know how to judge best. One thing only I would insist upon and that is you
must not in any case risk your health and freedom personal freedom. This is
—depend upon me—perfectly not only permissible but positively
commendable in your case and the case of those who stand as you do. In
other cases, too much attention to personal considerations is undoubtedly
demoralizing; but you cannot pay too much attention to it. Be anywhere in
the world—in the forests of Africa—in the republics of America—the
medical knowledge that you possess is sure to serve a passport and a
safeguard to you. For, indeed, wherever death is, doctors also can be -(Ugh!
Seen very angry? Of course, I mention this with all due respect to the
Majesty of Medicines—in fact in order to exalt it.) Therefore, do nothing
that would do injury to your health and also, nay more so, health of Shanta.
She should, of course, be encouraged to read more and to write even if she