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Other Indians came to see me and their reverence for this man

sounded strange in our world, where we hide great and little

things under the same veil of obvious comedy and half-serious

depreciation. When we were making the cathedrals had we a like

reverence for our great men? "Every morning at three-I know, for

I have seen it"-one said to me, "he sits immovable in

contemplation, and for two hours does not awake from his reverie

upon the nature of God. His father, the Maha Rishi, would

sometimes sit there all through the next day; once, upon a river,

he fell into contemplation because of the beauty of the

landscape, and the rowers waited for eight hours before they

could continue their journey." He then told me of Mr. Tagore's

family and how for generations great men have come out of its

cradles. "Today," he said, "there are Gogonendranath and

Abanindranath Tagore, who are artists; and Dwijendranath,

Rabindranath's brother, who is a great philosopher.