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 eaters amongst Social Reformers. To-day's Social Reformer speaks quite a different language from that of Ranade and others. And the venerable Shastris and Pandits of the present time sanction things that would have shocked their own susceptibilities a generation ago. The evolution of Mr. Tilak's religious views, so bold and original—lies recorded in the pages of the Gita-Rahasya; but the cruel hand of death has for ever prevented us from having an actual knowledge of the evolution of his ideas about the Hindu Society and the ways and means he had devised for its improvement. 'Ditcher' in the Capital (7th August 1920) remarks most thoughtfully;—

"There were epochs of thought in his personal biography; and I think that in the zenith of his power, the fervour of his Hindu particularism began to cool and blend with the more CathoUc tendencies of his time and conutry."