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टिळकांस गोखल्यांचा हेवा वाटणें शक्य होतें काय ?

च्या सुमारास टिळकांस हेवा वाटण्यासारखें गोखल्यांजवळ कांहीं एक नव्हते. टिळकचरित्रकार रा. आठल्ये लिहितात:-
 "Mr. Tilak jealous! Mr. Tilak unable to work with his equals.— Mr. Tilak, who during eleven years of his life in the D. E. Society never once cared to obtain the post of a Principal, Head Master or Superintendent! And pray jealous of whom? Not of Ranade or Telang- his intellectual peers; but of Apte, Agarkar and Gokhale!! Mr. Paranjpye is here speaking of the Gokhale not of 1905 or 1908, not of 1897 even; the Gokhale of 1885 or 1887 was, according to his own biographers, regarded by his own friends and Mr. Tilak's opponents as nothing better than a clever student. Apte was a Sanskritist and nothing more; Mr. Tilak's versatile genius could beat Apte on his own ground. As regards Agarkar, his title to fame rests more on his great sacrifice, his championship of reform of every kind and his eloquent style, rather than on his genius and learning. In point of intellectual equipment, Mr. Tilak far surpassed all his colleagues; and if there was any jealousy at work, it must have been rather in the minds of those who accustomed to regard Mr. Tilak as an equal ever since the College days, could not now hear with equanimity his enormous superiority."
 हा लांबलचक उतारा देण्याचें कारण येवढेंच कीं, टिळकांस इतरांचा द्वेष वाटे, त्यांस आपल्याहून दुसरा अधिक चांगला प्रोफेसर होईल ही भीति वाटे हे आक्षेप अत्यंत दुष्ट व फोल आहेत, हे आमच्याप्रमाणेंच इतरांसही वाटतें हें दाखविणें; असो. टिळकांनी अखेर डिसेंबर १८९० मध्ये आपला कायमचा राजीनामा दिला आणि ज्या बाळसेदार बाळाला आपल्या अंगाखांद्यावर खेळविलें, ज्याच्यासाठी ११ वर्षे जिवापाड श्रम