With this gospel of active self-sacrifice none can assuredly quarrel, but it is the revolutionary form which Mr.Arabindo Ghose would see given to such activity that, unfortunately, chiefly fascinates the rising generation of Bengalees.
For him British rule and the Western civilization for which it stands threaten the very life of Hinduism, and therefore British rule and all that it stands for must go, and in order that they may go every Hindu must be up and doing.

That Mr.Arabindo Ghose himself holds violence and murder to be justifiable forms of activity for achieving that purpose cannot be properly alleged, for though he has several times been placed on his trial and in one instance for actual complicity in political crime--namely, in the Maniktolla bomb case--and though he is at present a fugitive from justice, the law has so far acquitted him.

But that his followers have based upon his teachings a propaganda by deed of the most desperate character is beyond dispute.

It has been openly expounded with fanatical fervour and pitiless logic in a newspaper edited by his brother, Barendra Ghose, of which the file constitutes one of the most valuable and curious of human documents.
Of the three Bengali newspapers that came into the field soon after Partition as the explicit champions of revolution--- the _Sandhya_, the _Navasakti_, to which Mr.Arabindo Ghose was himself a frequent contributor, and the _Yugantar_--the last named achieved the greatest and most startling popularity.

It was founded in 1906 by Barendra Kumar Ghose, a brother of Arabindo, and by Bhupendranath Dutt, only brother of the celebrated Swami Vivekananda, who visited Europe and America as the missionary of the Hindu revival and has been revered in India, since his premature death in 1905, as a modern _rishi_ and a no less great one than those of ancient Vedic times.