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Rh —are treated as worse than cats and dogs. The touch of some of my fellow countrymen—though belonging to the same creed—contaminates my person and my food. With such engrained ideas permeating every stratum of our social fabric it is a little bit absurd to talk loud of patriotism, which practically means love of one's own fellowmen. Thus it was that Ananda Mohan threw himself heart and soul into every movement which had for its object the amelioration of the condition of the depressed classes of our people. Politics with him was not a thing apart, but a part and parcel of his very religion. With him to take recourse to make-shifts, to subserve temporary ends was tantamount to a crime and he would make no compromise with the eternal principles of justice and righteousness.

Ananda Mohan could never work in a half hearted way. Whatever cause he once espoused found in him a fervid champion for ever. I have often seen him return from the lengthy deliberations of a meeting of the Senate or the Syndicate of the Calcutta University and plunge afresh into the discussions of important matters before the Executive Committee of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. He was as much at home in addressing an audience on the temperance question as on the re-organisation of the Education Service at the Congress.

Everyone who had ever any occasion to approach Ananda Mohan felt the magnetism of his personality. His moral fervour, his piety, his suavity of temper,