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( xix.) day after day for many years past with an eye for the public good, far surpasses them in amount and importance. Babu Vihari Lala Mitra is as true a Hindu and as religious-minded a man as Sadhu Gokul himself But he is also one of the most liberal-minded and advanced of men, receptive to a degree from his earliest youth to the teachings and the forces that have had, and must continue to have such an enormous influence upon the entire Asiatio world. Favoured beyond only too many he has shown how it is possible to take the best of the new and use it well and wisely, without at the samme time, losing any of the best of the old. To the vast moral and spiritual wealth inherited from his ancestors, he has added equally great moral and mental wealth won by himself from the new mines of the new age, even as with the material wealth coming to him from the founders of his house. So politically. He is a truly loyal Eindu and Indian, far more so, than the dangerous and demented Extremists with whom he has frequently shown his abiding impatience and an equally loyal subject of the Government which gave India peace and prosperity after long anarchy, and under which his house and his people have thriven steadily. When the history comes to be Written of the troubled and obscure days through which we are passing the faithful, historian will note that one of those who preserved his sanity and coolness who displayed a sense of proportion and the possession, of a strong spirit, in the midst of a tempest 110