Page:Vidyasagar, the Great Indian Educationist and Philanthropist.djvu/8

 Some live for themselves and think of nothing but profit and loss. They pass out of memory the moment they return to dust. There are others who eternise their name by taking up the cause of the friendless and redressing the wrongs of mankind. Some make a veritable hell of this earth fomenting discord; while others transform it to paradise, promoting peace. The subject of this biography must be ranked with the latter.

Isvar Chandra Bandopadhyaya saw the light on September 26, 1820, at Birsingha, a petty village on the confines of the Hugli