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16 LEAGUE ASSAULTS ON SATYARTHA PRAICASH
life's march of truth and perfection and reached, so to say,.
the blind-alley beyond which they cannot and need nat go ?'
Is no further change, no more purification and ennobling
in their human, moral and spiritual values any more
desirable or called for ? If only one had the moral strength
to do so, and also the requisite measure of pure love of
God and His Religion so sustain and express that strength,
one should have regarded the critisisms in the fourteenth
chapter as a great eye-opener, as a stern emphasis on the
pressing need of pure
Islamic
purification and exaltation of
the Musalman community not only in India but throughout
the world in the best interests of humanity and human pro-
gress.
It would have been scandalous to the pure truth of
Islam of Dayananda's conception, to the Vedic truth of
Islam,
and he would have failed in his duty as a socio-
religious reformer, if he had not written the present four-
teenth chapter and made it an essential part of his
Satyartha
Prakash.
Thus neither Dayananda, the author, nor any
publisher of the book, nor anyone else, can destroy or separate
that chapter from the book. Therefore a ban imposed
exclusively on the fourteenth chapter would have meant
virtually a ban on the whole book. But that is entirely a
different matter. In that case, it would be the result not
of any violation of the rule of law, not of any illegal and
iniquitous exercise of the power to curtail or any other way
interfere with the natural "liberty of a subject". In that
case, it would be a result brought about by other causes.
But the important consideration regarding the League-
propelled Sind Government's ban is whether the principle of
its decision and action for seizing and forfeiting the whole