'Slejo economics of facts, the economics of the peasant-statesman, the wisdom of the king of an agrarian and socialistic people. In Indian economics, his name will be remembered, when others are long forgotten. In work, his industry was appalling. As his fellow-guest, on one of the Norwegian fiords, when he was writing the Economic History, I can remember how his only recreation consisted of the long evenings spent in boating or in music, and the hour after the forenoon ಕ್ಲಿ; when he would come to the verandah, to eat a little fruit, while one of us would read to the others, the last instalment of his work. I have even wakened at night, sometimes, to see the candle-light streaming through the half-open door, and catch a glimpse of the head bowed over its manuscript, at the other end of the great music-room, when he had lain sleepless for hours, and risen to work ! It was to do the work that he thought he could do for his country by writing books, that he renounced his appointment, with its large salary, at the earliest possible moment, and retired to spend even his pension, in the further philanthropy of publishing his works! In London, late in 1900, and throughout, 1901, it was the pleasure and privilege of my friends and myself, to see much of Mr. Dutt, in many ways; and one felt more and more, in his calm disinterestedness, in his loneliness, and in his concentration, that as his forefathers had gone to the forest to live the life of the banaprastha, for the development of the self, so here was one, leading the same life, in the forest of bricks and mortar, for the development of his people. "You ask if I will go with you to so-and-so, he wrote to me once, of a journey that I knew to be very disagreeable, 'only to speak for ten minutes of India & But I would go into a tiger's cage for that ' Unassuming, simple, generous to a fault, the cypression might be modern, but the greatness within was the ancient greatness. Romesh Chunder Dutt was a man of his own people. The object of all he ever did was not his own fame, but the uplifting of India. That gained, what matters it to him, the illustrious dead, whether a book or two more or less, live or die? But it matters to his countrymen, matters to all eternity, that they should not fail in his meed of reverent salutation, that the voice of criticism should be hushed, and cleverness stand silent, while they carry to the funeral-fire, one who stands amongst the fathers of the future, one who dreamt high dreams and worked at great things untiringly, yet left behind him, before his country's altar, no offering so noble, no proof of her greatncss so incontrovertible, as that one thing of which he never thought at all, his own character and his own love!” মৃত্যুর পরে : রমেশচন্দ্রের মৃত্যুর পর দেশ-বিদেশের গাণিজ্ঞানী ব্যক্তিগণ বিভিন্নভাবে তাঁহার প্রতি শ্রদ্ধা প্রদর্শন করেন। সবদেশের যে সব প্রতিস্ঠানের সহিত তাঁহার ঘনিষ্ঠ যোগ ছিল তাঁহারাও তাঁহার প্রতি শ্রদ্ধা জ্ঞাপন করিলেন। বঙ্গীয় সাহিত পরিষদের সঙ্গে রমেশচন্দ্রের ঘনিষ্ঠ পরিচয়ের কথা আমরা অবগত হইয়াছি। পরিষদ তাঁহার সমতিরক্ষার যথোচিত আয়োজন করিল। তাঁহার মৃত্যুর অব্যবহিত পরেই সাহিত্য-পরিষদ সংলগ্ন একটি সমতি-মন্দির স্থাপনের উদ্যোগ আয়োজন চলে। কয়েক বৎসর অবিরাম চেস্টার ফলে ১৩৩১ বঙ্গাব্দে "রমেশ ভবন" নামে একটি মতি-মন্দির স্থাপিত হয়। ১৩৪৫ বঙ্গাব্দে ইহার দ্বিতল নিমিত হয়। পয়ল অন্তৰ্ভুক্ত না দে সতিসন্মত পঙ্গল গে পরিণত হইয়াছে।
