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It is a pity that he left no dying words of advice; for strange have been the sentences and expressions of dying warriors, kings, philosophers, and priests, reflecting some ever-latent trait in their character; and strange, too, but yet not unnatural, is the fondness with which we linger over death-bed scenes, and gasping words. Gasping words!—-eh bien !—the whole of life seems, as it were, summed up in one moment, and we linger round its utterances when "out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh," in anxious yearning, and tion those moribund expressions, whether they cannot give us some glimpse of the world to come, where the spirit that sent them out in tremulous motion is about to find its lodging for evermore. In one sense, every man here is a Moses, seeking the Promised Land-brighter still, we must admit, than what was vouchsafed to the Jewish Prophet, who took the Pisgah view of his destination from the summit of the mountain; and we can well conceive other chosen spirits of this world, if not all, like him, taking a Pisgah view from the side of the death-bed, and seeing something of the bright land of promise in their own case. Harris's last words would no doubt have afforded a glimpse

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of his own faith, full of intense interest and veneration. But alas! he had no last words to utter. Eminently prosperous and useful, he lived and worked, and died in perfect silence; only leaving the awful impression on his friends and countrymen, when his spirit left this world, that a bright star had set in Heaven!

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CHAPTER III.

INHERENT SOURCES OF HIS SUCCESS. INHERENT Sources of success in life.-Poverty, the chief impulse of activity in material and intellectual attainments.Melancholy history associated with literary life.-Allegory of Consuelo.-Harris's poverty.-His earliest avocation an incentive to his activity.-Conception of education and learning among the illiterate Natives.-Merivale's conclusion from Roman history.-Faults in the character of Young India.-How removed?-Hasty notions of his conduct.-Two great classes of Young India how distanced ?-A representative of the worst class.--His career and life allegorically described. --His dejection in after-life.-His want of perfect self-reliance.-Harris prominently apart from his educated countrymen in the possession of confidence of opinion.-Cogency of feeling required to impel all internal decisions into action.Courage required to withstand the attacks of ridicule and contempt from others.-Disraeli's bold stroke of courage on his first appearance in Parliament.-Baboo Harrischander possessed all the bolder virtues of success.-An incident in his School-life to illustrate his noble disdain of all wrong and insult.

THE brief and rapid review that we have taken, in the last chapter, meagre and imperfect as it is, of what Harris did, brings us to our second question—What was he, who did all this, with regard to the INHERENT circumstances of his life? Here he is-a rude, beggar-boy, of

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imperious habit, without the working of any higher emotion than is the wont of an ordinary youth in his infantine years; who had, save perhaps a little of unusual intelligence, and memory, nothing pre-eminent in him as a boy; who stopped in his school only to pick up such a smattering as enabled him to scribble and speak a little gibberish-like many a youngster from the last forms of our colleges and schools; who at the early age of thirteen relinquished his school and his tasks, to beg for an appointment of eight or ten rupees-the salary of a common sepoy,-in different parts of the city, and found himself rejected and repelled with scorn and a sneer, and at length mendicantly consented to be a common ten-rupee clerk at an auctioneer's;-this boy passes, in after-life, not only into a man occupying a post of dignity and emolument as yet denied to all his countrymen; not only into a gentleman of rank, wealth, and influence; not only into a journalist, edifying his readers with his learning, information, and eloquence; but also into a patriot, sternly fighting the battle of humanity and freedom against a powerful and cynical Governmentinto a man of wisdom and sagacity, opening the sealed book of the politics of his country, cutting,

criticising, caricaturing State measures, and suggesting problems which would take to task the highest powers of a versed politician-into a public character, ever-successful, ever-honoured, leaving to his nation the legacy of an Association, that, with its present influence, represents the popular element in Government, and promises, if rightly and constitutionally sustained, the regular Third Estate, in time to come, with its full splendour, majesty, and awe, in this ever-neglected, ever-oppressed land of the East! How all this came about, and what led the man inherently to an achievement of this consummation, is the inquiry for present investigation.

What led the man to his achievements?— Why, in the first place, it was his poverty! Poverty has been the great world-maker; the greatest ends have been achieved by poverty; for the obvious reason that "Necessity is the mother of invention !" When one is poor, he must scheme for the stomach; there is no wealth furnishing sustenance, and no friends to lend a helping hand. He must think alone, contrive alone, and work alone; and independence of position, and success, naturally result to him. The earth itself, without poverty, would have

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