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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,