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Rh his parents and was ever eager to do all that would make them happy. Questioned by some Brahmins of Benares whether he believed in the god of the city, he candidly answered in the negative, adding that his living parents were the only deities he cared to worship. With him this was no blasphemy. He considered it a sacred duty to serve his parents. While that new-old doctrine of the sanctity of all work was writing in another land, in India there was at least one who was silently and unwittingly carrying out that principle in practice. No man more thoroughly understood the dignity of labour than Vidyasagar. That ancient tenet of Karma he followed by instinct. He was as much at home with the lowest as with the highest and took equal delight in being eminently useful to them all without parade of noble intentions. India mourns the loss of the son who embodied her spirit and glory. Can such a blameless life be without value in the sight of the Lord?