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34 harmoniser With clear thought, wide outlook, balanced judgment and well-directed energy, he is a powerful organiser. Braced by the vitalising conviction that ‘the highest is also the most real’; refined by the chastening influences of that true humility, vinaya, which, like ‘the fruit-laden bough’, 'rests its head upon the ground’; and illumined by the savant’s truth—‘the laws of nature are the thoughts of God’, by the sage’s wisdom—‘the shoe-black is Infinite’, by the Seer’s evangel— ‘among the Daityas I am Prahlada’, he is (in Lord Haldane’s noble phrase) a brother of the ‘Priesthood of Humanity’.

Stated in my inadequate language, such are the content, the aim and the worth of that Culture which the University assigns to you as the supreme concern of life. It is an ‘excelsior’ ascent of ever-towering heights. With expanding horizons and multiplying marvels, the prospect is glorious. The enterprise is heroic in purpose and fruitful in results. It is a path adorned with the foot-prints of the wisest and noblest of all ages.