182 EvENTS OF HIS LIFE. The bost part of your letter remains however to be acknowledged and I know not how to thank you adequately for that. It is that part of the letter in which you so feelingly allude to the yearning for search after the higher truths of life as being the real reason for retirement with reflecting minds. In referring to this you have pointed to the truc Brahminical ideal of retirement. You have acted towards me the part of a truc and valued friend and you touched a cord which has becn vibrating long and which will go on vibrating till it broaks. I cordially thank you for your felicitating me on my chance of satisfying the yearning you have so touchingly alluded to but I tremblingly stop with the question-will that satisfaction over coine? Yours ever sincerely, Gooroodass Banerjec. The retirement of Mr. Justice Banerjec today causes a vacancy which will not easily be filled up. He is a great and good man, and was a learned and upright Judge. The story of his life is the story of the triumph of an honest, upright and brilliant career unblemished by a single dark spot either in public or private life, and of success resulting from the constant domination of higher over lower springs of action. Mr. Banerjee is a self-made man and that is a type which the modern man always admires. Such admiration changes into reverence when one finds, that in the storm and stress of the modern struggle for existence, there are men who can in their
