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all to show to theforeign combines what united
indigenous organisation could achieve. But he
took this faithlessness withstoic composure,
comforting himself with the thought that at
any rate he had shown the way as to what
Indians could accomplish when intent on
doing so with unity of aim and purpose. The
example was followed once more a few years
ago when a similar enterprise but with an
AAq/fsA ship owning line was embarked upon
with this further good result that another
material reduction in China freights had to be
undergone by the combine. Thus at the very
meridian of his prosperity Mr. Tata had de-
monstrated the value of Swadeshism in matters
industrial and commercial. No academic
person, his motto was action, action, action.
Action was the key to all his enterprises.
They were not to be mere paper ones. The
abstract had to be translated on the terms of
the concrete. A practical man, he showed the
way to his countrymen how wealth acquired
may be put to the best productive uses which
might benefit the country and advance the
people a stage forward in their struggle for
material prosperity. By 1895, Mr. Tata had
amply proved his credentials as a great man of

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