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of Ahmedabad and other jain luminaries graced the occasion with their valuable presence. Effective and highly eulogistic speeches referring to Lallubhai's qualities of head and heart were made by Messrs. Kunvarji Anandjee, Muljibhai and many others. Lallubhai gave a fitting reply in his characteristic humble manner, stating that such addresses were best .given not at the beginning of a man's career but at the end of his career, that he looked upon the address as enormously increasing his responsibility in life and that in the present case his responsibility would be all the greater, as the address was delivered within the sacred precincts of the jain temple before the inspiring presence of Gols.
Lallubhai used to hold very strong and colightened views on some of the sucial usages - of the present age. He used to condemn the custom 'of early marriages, saying that it shattered. the youth and spoiled the manhood of society. He was a very staunch advocate of foreign travel and used to deplore the back ivard state of the female education. But while ardently longing for the welfare of his countrymen, he never allowed himself to indulge in any excesses of either opinion
