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is the one man in India doing work of the first rank, & that to this day he is paid less than any Englishman, even the commonest, wä. receive in his place"? Dr. Garnett of London told me of the splendour of the great College of Sciences at Vienna, and how, when he exclaimed as to its cost, the government representative replied proudly that if one scientific man shq. be produced in a century there, it wa. be more than worth their while. Which of us feels like this 7 Ah India 1 India! Can you not give enough freedom to one of the greatest of your sons to enable him, not to sit at ease, but— to go out & fight your battles where the fire is hottest & the labour most intense, and the contest raging thickest ? And if you cannot do this— if you cannot even bless your own child & send him out equipped, then, is it worthwhile that the doom should be averted, & the hand of ruin stayed, from this unhappy & so-beloved land 7 This is all very inadequate, dear Mr. Tagore. But I have used many sheets of note-paper I see— & I must draw my letter to a close. Ever yours faithfully Nivedita of Ramakrishna-V. Ꮌ © Ꮼ