Are you not willing to suffer? Then you are not willing to do good. The degree with which you are willing to do good is according to the degree in which you are willing to take misconstructions, opposition and suffering in the world.

It has been well said by one of the greatest thinkers of the present generation, that all reforms have to pass through three stages:

1. Ridicule, 2. Argument, 3. Adoption.

Modest doubt is called

The beacon of the wise.

-SHAKESPeare.

First to doubt, then to inquire, and then to discover, has been the process universally followed by our great teachers.

-BUCKLE.

The obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is like the devil not to be cast out but with great difficulty. Whatsoever he lays hold on, like a drowning man, he never loses, though it do but help to sink him the sooner.

-SAMUEL BUTLER.

'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike; yet each believes his own.

-POPE.

Badness of memory every one complains of, but

nobody of the want of judgment.

-ROCHEFOUCAULD.

None are so deaf as they that will not hear.

It is not given to all men to possess the clear and vigorous judgment which is the most likely to give soundness to their opinions; but all men have it, nevertheless, in their power to give them some degree of correctness and value. The first duty is to look searchingly and challengingly into all those already stored up, with a view to testing their accuracy, and to be prepared to abandon those which shall appear fallacious, however endeared they may be to us from habit and association; trusting fully in the maxim, that nothing which is not true can be good. A second duty is to watch carefully over the feelings, especially all which relate to sordid views of interest, so as to prevent them from corrupting the judgment. When any man is sure in his conscience that he has done all which his nature permits thus to secure right views of abstract questions, he may be considered as entitled to bring his opinions before his fellow-creatures, to be listened to and allowed their fair share of influence-but not, I humbly conceive, till then.

-R. CHAMBERS.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

-SMILES.

The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character;

here are to be found its true interest, its chief strength,

its real power.

-MARTIN LUTHER.

For just experience tells in every soil,

That those that think must govern those that toil.
-GOLDSMITH.

The state after all exists only to make individual members composing it nobler, happier, richer, and more perfect in every attribute with which we are endowed; and this perfection of our being can never be insured by any outside arrangement, however excellent, unless the individual member concerned is in himself prepared in his own private social sphere of duties to cooperate in his own well-being.

--M. G. RANADE,

One of the commandments which he earnestly exhorted his hearers to follow was to follow the noble example of Raja Rammohan Roy, who was the leading spirit and the guide to educated Indians.

*

-MR. JUSTICE CHANDAVARKAR.

Dr. R. G. Bhandarkar defined one object of social reform to be that of eradicating such evil customs as have undermined the energies of the Indian people, and prevent the free expression of their powers and capacities, and he urged that social reformers were not only actuated by sympathy for suffering but by the desire to promote national well-being. "Social changes," he continued, "have been effected to some extent by English

• From a Report in the Bombay Gazette of the 13th October 1903.

influence, but something more systematic is required; changes are not always good, they should be under the guidance of reason and moral sense. The reform movement has a has a twofold object, to eradicate prevailing evils, and to prevent new evils. The former is at present very important, and it needs more resolute action, more practical endeavours than are usually to be found. The second object must also be carefully aimed at. Bad practices, such as drunkenness, should be condemned in no measured terms."*

Our deliberate conviction has grown upon us with every effort, that it is only a religious revival that can furnish sufficient moral strength to work out the complex social problems which demand our attention. Only a religious revival, a revival not of forms, but of sincere earnestness which constitutes true religion, can effect the desired end.

-M. G. RANADE.

Steadily, steadily, step by step,
Up the venturous Builders go,
Carefully placing stone on stone-
Thus the loftiest temples grow.

Patiently, patiently, day by day,
The Artist toils at his task alway;
Touching it here and tinting it there,
Giving it ever, with infinite care,

A line more soft, or a hue more fair,
Till, little by little, the picture grows,
With life and beauty and forms of grace
That evermore in the world have place.

* From the address reported in the Indian Magazine and Review.

Thus with the Poet-hour after hour

He listens to catch the fairy chimes

That ring in his soul; then, with magic power,
He weaves their melody into his rhymes;
Slowly, carefully, word by word,

Line by line and thought by thought,
He fastens the golden tissue of song-
And thus are immortal anthems wrought.
Every wise observer knows-

Every watchful gazer sees
Nothing grand or beautiful grows,
Save by gradual, slow degrees.

Ye who toil with a purpose high,
And fondly the proud result await,
Murmur not, as the hours go by,

That the season is long, the harvest late;
Remember that brotherhood, strong and true,
Builders and Artists and Bards sublime,
Who lived in the Past, and worked like you,
Worked and waited a wearisome time.

Dark and cheerless and long their night

Yet they patiently toiled at the task begun, Till, lo! through the clouds broke that morning light

Which shines on the soul when success is won!

DROOP NOT UPON YOUR WAY.

Ho! Ye, who start a noble scheme,

For general good designed;

Ye workers in a course that tends
To benefit your kind!

Mark out the path ye fain would tread,
The game ye mean to play;