१८५७ का स्वातन्त्र्य समर (वीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर - अंग्रेजों द्वारा छपने से पूर्व प्रतिबन्धित महाग्रन्थ)

CHAPTER V
ADDING FUEL TO FIRE
TO allow the existence of a slavery under which
such unjust acts of oppression (as have been
mentioned in the last chapter) and hundreds of
other unmentionable crimes (which have been
left unmentioned, being, indeed, too numerous
to mention) are committed and encouraged
and to bow the head in submission to the perpetrators
thereof, is not this the very destruction of Religion ?
What religion is there which has not condemned depend-
ence and slavery ? The ultimate goal of true religion is
likeness unto the nature of the Supreme Being that moves
everything, of Him who made all beings capable of
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