Page:The Message and Ministrations of Dewan Bahadur R. Venkata Ratnam, volume 1.djvu/46

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Socratic eeranity, h« sustains himself witii the thought, ‘‘ Can a Soul’s bi’other he ah* <iuired at a loss cost than the ■vt’orst that tnau may say? ” Hence, no Theistic believer or body, no liberal-minded spirit among high and: low in the Walks of public or jS’ivate life, in the Nol’thern Circars but has derived inspiration from his noble soul . No harsh world upon his lip, no graceless ruffle in his temper, simple and austere in habit, ^‘wearing all that weight of learning lightly like a flower” in all humility, he cannot but strike even the casual, distant observer as a beautiful examjde of plain living and high thinking. “ Y oii are living here the life of an anchoiito ” was what a discerning visitor once remarked in his home.

ShOidcomings there aie in the fruitful, if not eventful, life delineated above. this life and the life of the ever-venerated Kao Hahadur Veeresalingam I’antulu, such as they are ,make up the two hemispheres of one glorious orb of illumination for us in the Southern PresMency — Venkata Katnam the sage, ’Veercsalinga m the hero; the one witb his idegi of saintliness and passion wordbip,