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INTRODUCTION.
modern times. His countrymen reviled and persecuted
him while living. Faults he might have had, and even
the sun has its spots. But his character in calm heroic
courage and thorough independence, in utter sincerity
which disdained to conceal the little failings of his life
and complete forgetfulness of self in the cause of the
good of his country, ennobled the race to which he
belonged. His countrymen have honoured him not.
But his religion has flourished and his country has
prospered; his works have lived and are bearing
fruit; no other reward did he seek or hope for in this
world.
The late professor Max Muller in his life of the
Raja, very truly described his position in regard to his
countrymen in the following words :—
" The German name for prince is Furst, in English
First, he who is always to the fore, he who courts the
place of danger, the first place in fight, the last in flight.
S uch a First was Ram Mohun Roy, a true prince, a
real Raja, if Raja also, like Rex, meant originally the
steersman, the man at the helm."
Ram Mohun Roy died on the 27th of September
1833, and was buried on 18th October, at Stapleton
Grove in Bristol. Ten years after, his remains were
removed to the cemetery of Arno's Vale near Bristol,
where a tomb was raised upon his grave by his distin-
guished countryman, and devoted freind Dwarka Nath
Tagore, and in 1872 the following inscription was en-
graved on the tomb.—
INTRODUCTION.
modern times. His countrymen reviled and persecuted
him while living. Faults he might have had, and even
the sun has its spots. But his character in calm heroic
courage and thorough independence, in utter sincerity
which disdained to conceal the little failings of his life
and complete forgetfulness of self in the cause of the
good of his country, ennobled the race to which he
belonged. His countrymen have honoured him not.
But his religion has flourished and his country has
prospered; his works have lived and are bearing
fruit; no other reward did he seek or hope for in this
world.
The late professor Max Muller in his life of the
Raja, very truly described his position in regard to his
countrymen in the following words :—
" The German name for prince is Furst, in English
First, he who is always to the fore, he who courts the
place of danger, the first place in fight, the last in flight.
S uch a First was Ram Mohun Roy, a true prince, a
real Raja, if Raja also, like Rex, meant originally the
steersman, the man at the helm."
Ram Mohun Roy died on the 27th of September
1833, and was buried on 18th October, at Stapleton
Grove in Bristol. Ten years after, his remains were
removed to the cemetery of Arno's Vale near Bristol,
where a tomb was raised upon his grave by his distin-
guished countryman, and devoted freind Dwarka Nath
Tagore, and in 1872 the following inscription was en-
graved on the tomb.—