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and activity. He applied this principle of humanity with his extra-ordinary depth of scholarship and natural gift of intuition, to social, literary and religious affairs, never acknowledging limitations of circumstance, never deviating from his purpose lured by distractions of temporal excitement. His attempt was to establish our peoples on the full consciousness of their own cultural personality, to make them, comprehend the reality of all that was unique and indestructible in their civilization, and simultaneously, to make them approach other civilization in the spirit of sympathetic cooperation. With this view in his mind he tackled an amazingly wide range of social, cultural and religious problems of our country, and through a long life spent in unflagging service to the cause of India's cultural reassertion, brought back the pure stream of India's philosophy to the futility of our immobile and unproductive national existence. In social ethics he was an uncompromising interpreter of the truths of human relationship, tireless in his crusade against social wrongs and superstition, generous in his co-operation with any reformer, both of this country and of outside, who came

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