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FOREWORD.
( By The Hon. Mr. Lalubhai Samaldas
Mehta, C. I. E. ). It is a singular testimony to the excellent qualities both of the head and heart of the late Mr. Lallubhai Motichand Mehta that Mr. Motilal M. Shah, the translator of a well-known work on Vairagya, should have thought it fit to connect that young man's name with his work. As a school friend of Jir. Motichand I was interested in the growth anit educational progress of his son, and it was s pleasure to see the son proving superior even to the father. When his friends chaffed the father on this, he felt more prond of the boy in accordance with the proverb, ' game ki foor'. Owing chiefly to hard work, Mr. Lallübhai's health broke down and the nervous strain led to constant attacks of head-ache. It was during one of such severe attacks accompanied by fever that