পাতা:Reminiscences Speeches And Writings Of Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee Reminiscences pt. 1.pdf/৩৫৭

338 TRIBUTES TO HIS MEMORY. him, and all who loved revered him. Imbued with the divine precepts of the Bhagavad Gila, throughout his life, indeed, he was the most notable example that our time has produced of the masterful power of man's spiritual nature when at its highest to conquer in its warfare with earthly conditions. Born in poverty, bereaved of the loving care and affection of his father when only three years old, labouring ever afterwards under physical difficulties which would have converted nine men out of ten into aimless invalids, no one felt like him the pathos of the battle of life; yet keenly as he felt it, he did not despair; we find in him no complaining, no tedious arraignment of the scheme of things: his was a cheery, manly soul. It always acts as a moral tonic to be brought in contact with one who does not faintly trust the larger hope, but is confidently sure that in aiming at the highest we are doing the best for our best selves. A great moral forec has passed away in Sir Gooroo Dass, and the country is the poorer by his death, for men of his type area rare possession. Of his life as scholar, lawyer, judge and educationist we have already spoken at great length in the pages of this Journal, and it would bo superfluous to reitrate what is matter of familiar knowledge. The occupations of his life after retirement are not germane to our subject. All we need say is that a man of his temperament who had maintained an open and receptive mind could suffer froln no vacuity. He had always been alive to the movements of letters, of philosophical study and of theological argulment, and in his seclusion he enjoyed the priceless collsolations of literature and learning. But a man possessing