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-the grains of gold, the noble thoughts they gave utterance the achievements of their pen, that mighty instrument of little men. The smaller, the Community, the less excuse there is for its leaders to allow the memory and thoughts of such men to lapse, it is almost a moral and a communal crime. No community in India has been more guilty of this crime than the Jain community. Writing as a Jain, I am simply sorry for my inability. to give expression to the indignation. I feel, on account of my community's deplorable neglect in the matter of writing the biographies and preserving the writings of very few men that have upheld its intellectual and religious prestige, who have tried to vivify their interness and to prove that though small, they are yet not a negligible quantity in this ancient land. One of such men was the late Mr.
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Virchand Gandhi. I have undertaken the publication, in a handy form, of his speeches and writings as 2 pure Labour of love, and take this opportunity of placing before the members of my community a brief sketch of his short but useful career.] Mr. GANDHI was born of poor but gentle parents on the 25th of August 1864 in a small village named MAHUWA near BHAVNAGAR, in KATHIAWAR, RAGHVJI his father, was jeweller by profession and had earned for himself a fair competency. He was a very orthdox Jaina and fully subscribed to all the varaied tenents of Jaina religion. Though without any education, as the word is understood now-a-days, he had an enlightened mind which instinctively revolted against anything which he thought to be irrational, unwholesome or incongruous in the social life of his co
