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HIS POLITIC At, CAREER. 127 top numerous to be mentioned here. Rut these great men.however splendid and valuable their services might have been to the cause of the healthy development of popular aspirations in politics, laid only the foundation on which the colossal superstructure of national and poitical unity has been sought to be raised by the sub- ject of this notice ; and the credit is all his own. Ram Gopal and Kristo Mohuri, Hurish and Kristo Das worked from within ; but Surendra Nath raised the building from without. The sphere of work of the former was confined to a limited few, but the latter's work of usefulness enembraced in its wide and broad sphere the entire length and breadth of India. Ram Gopal, Hurish, and Kristo Das. never went beyond the few metropolitan centres of intelligence and education to preach the gospel of politics, but Surendra Nath with his banner aloft went from town to town, from village to village, amidst unbearable heat anddrenching rain, un- mindful of personal comfort and convenience, to rouse Bengal, nay all India, from the slumber of ages past. From Madras in the South to Multanand Rawal- Pindee in the North-west; from Dacca in the East to Puna, Ahmedabad and Surat in the Western Pre- sidency, there is hardly a town of any note where Su- rendra Nath has not been, like the Apostles and Monks of the middle ages, to preach the lessons of politi- cal unity and of national effort for political enfranchise- ment.