The inevitable controversy that raged for some time had important and far-reaching results. It drilled the mind of the community for the gradual abolition of the practice. Like other great men, Vidyasagar was partly the child of his age and partly its creator. While he fell in with the temper of the time, he did what in him lay to give a new direction to the thoughts of men and prepare a field for the work of reconstruction.
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