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5. The highest object of life we take to be, to form a manly character, and to work out the best development possible of body and spirit-of mind, conscience, heart and soul. This is the end; allelse must be regarded as the means. Accordingly, that is not the most successful life in which a man gets the most pleasure, the most money, the most power or place, honour or fame, but that in which a man gets the most manhood, and performs the greatest amount of useful work and of hunan duty.”
--Smiles.. Mr. Lallubhai M. Mehta was born in Bhavnagar On the 19th October, 1880. He belonged to 8 highly respectable and ancient Jain family which has made Bhavnagar its bome ever since its migration to this place froin Palitana, more than a bundred years ago. Mr. Motichand, the father particularly obliged to the Hon. Mr. Lalubhui Samaldas Mehta. C. I. E. and to Mr. Gulabrai G. Desai, B. A: LL. B. the leading pleader of the Bhavnagar Bar, for the keen interest which they have taken in this .sketch while it was getting ready, and for their valuable suggestions and advice.