CHAPTER VII
HOMEWARDS.
"A Power is passing from the earth."
—Wordsworth.
The great are never born to die. Their works, their teachings, their character, make them immortal. Dust returns to dust. Death cannot lay his cruel hands on the soul; the dissolution of the body cannot cast it into the limbo of oblivion. Death does not level or equalise all. Men possessing no personality go the way of all Shams. The inspiring influence of a master spirit does not cease with the shuffling off of this mortal coil. Though Vidyasagar passed away after he had lived out his threescore years and ten, his grand personality remains behind to inspirit people for ages to come.
After submitting his note on the Age of Consent Bill the septuagenarian reformer
