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

through his family in an individual blood relation with every other English
family, which he can prove as soon as summoned by M. Gandhiji to do so.
How can the cockney in the East London dare to claim to inherit the blood
of the house of York or the proud Earls, whose pedigree boasts of pure
patrician blood, that for generations and generations admitted none but a
patrician within its sacred precincts? If a Hindu cannot be said to possess
the blood of a Pratap and Ram or Rohidas Chambhar on account of the
absence of the custom of intermarriages amongst castes and consequent
absence of individual blood relations with the persons or their families, with
whom he claims consanguinity, then an Englishman too cannot necessarily
be said to inherit the blood of a Shakespeare, or an American of
Washington, or an Italian, of Mazzini, or a German, of Frederick the Great,
on account of the absence of any positive proof of his or any of his family
being allowed to mix his blood with that of the other, in spite of the custom
of intermarriages amongst the European nations that can suggest a mere
possibility of consanguinity or affinity, but cannot in itself be a positive
proof thereof. The only advantage that a cockney of East London has over
the Hindu is that the cockney may be imaginatively looked upon as a blood
relation of, say, Henry VIII. Just as he may be imaginably looked upon to
be the prospective King of England or, for the matter of that, of all Europe!
But just as in spite of this imaginable possibility of being the Emperor of all
Europe, he, so far as facts are concerned, remains a cockney amongst
cockneys; even so, in spite of a possibility of being otherwise, he, so far as
all practical proofs are concerned, cannot be said to inherit the blood of a
Shakespeare or Hampden or Pitt or the Black Prince and, most certainly, not
of all these put together. And yet the school-children of these every
cockneys are made to short till they get hoarse in their school: We are the
sons of sires that baffled, crowned and martyred tyranny! They defied the
field and scaffold, for their birthright-so will we!”
Foolish rhodomontade! How can all English children be supposed to have
entered through their families into blood relation with all those Englishmen,
who centuries and centuries ago, ‘baffled, crowned and martyred tyranny!
We sincerely hope that if ever Mahatma Gandhi comes to wield the power
of a Supreme World Censor—God forbid!—which he hypothetically
granted to himself on the occasion of opening the offices of the Hindusthan
Times at Delhi, he would give his second attention to suppress throughout
Europe—nay all the world over—these foolish blusterings of intoxicated