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Slo/o গ্ৰাম্য উপাখ্যান land were eager to mould their national life after the models of the West. But Raj Narayan Bose, though he was himslf steeped in the culture and education of Europe, though his soul burned with a generous enthusiasm to reform the social abuses of his country, yet never lost the balance and sanity of his mind nor shut his eves to the superior spirituality of Hindu civilization. He wrote and spoke most forcibly on "The Superiority of Hinduism' and on the sad contrast between the 'Past and Present', established societies for the conservation of the national principle, and instituted measures for improving the physique of the Bengalis. In all he said and did, there was that passionate attachment to his country and his race, that strong resentment of the spurious affectation of superiority on the part of an alien people, which form a portion of that rich heritage of intellectual capacity, moral integrity, and spiritual fervour which...... that most remarkable and original old man........ But Raj Narayan Bose was something more than the passionate and impulsive