t, s y উপসংহার । \Ο ΟΣ candle, yet it is something to keep alive the memory of what it has wrought and been, for the sake of those who come after ; and I dare say it would solace Our Own despatch into the unknown if we could feel sure that we too are likely to be remembered by Our successors, and that our name was not going to vanish altogether from the earth when the last breath has fled from our lips. I have been strictly impartial in carrying out this policy, for I have been equally keen abut preserving the relics of Hindu and Musulman of Brahman and Buddhist, of Dravidian and Pathan. European and Indian, Christian and non-Cristian are to me absolutely alike in the execution of this solemn duty. I draw no distinction between their claims. And therefore, I am doing no more here that I have done elsewhere, if I turn to the memories of my own countrymen, and if I set up in the capital of the Indian Empire this tardy tribute to their sacrifice and suffering. How few of us ever pause to think about the past, and our duty to it, in the rush and scurry of Our modern lives. How few of us who tread the streets Of Calcutta from day to day ever turn a thought to the Calcutta Past. And yet Calcutta is one great graveyard of memories. Shadows of departed Governors-General power about the marble halls and corridors of Government House, where I do my daily work. Forgotten worthies i
