[ 2 ) line of thought, and I prayed with passionale yearning lo he Divine Moihor, he source of all power and encrgy, that to me also might be vouchsafed & IIACŁìSUITE of lhe same power and force. And then a sew nights luler, in the deep hours of darkness, a groat thought CŁAIYYE [looding over my soul Long life and death-at-will might not be impossible lo me if I walked in the ways ol purily and lived a lise of fermperance, sobriely and moderulion. Bul how could I save from dealh lhe people ol my household who might be inlemperałe and prone to all manner of sensual indulgence & And as I am o creature of the earth, entangled in the meshes of ourthly effection, how could I endure a long and lonely old age is my near and dear ones died before me 2 And so l concluded thal an early death would be proforable for rne. But along with ihls came lhe melancholy reflection—how had l wasled the precious hours of life, so ihai my free had no bud or blossom io show to the world ! And yei ihore was consolalion in the midst of this sorrow, for I recollected that inan is immortalised by his work. There are the gront poels of the world—Valmiki, Vedavyasa and Kalidasa in the Basi. Homer, Danie. Shakespeare in the West, who, being dead, slill live in the hearls and minds of men. But great as is their fame, would they live for ever like Newton who discovered the Law of Gravitalion ? If men
