PERSONALITY AND OUTLOOK
" / wish to be a nonentity in outward seeming :
but inwardly I must be with the highest.'1
We seldom find a true or complete record of
a man's sentiments and convictions and aspira-
tions from early youth up to the last stage of
life. But Nizamat Jung's hopes and ideals may
be traced in his poems and occasional writings,
which may be taken as a safe guide in forming a
more or less correct estimate of his personality.
His meditative disposition, his vision of the beauti-
ful in creation, his turning away from the vani-
ties of life, his want of ambition in the vulgar
sense of the word, his admiration of the lofty in
action and his constant contemplation of the lives
of the world's great men, so as to raise himself
to their plane of life —all this is fully reflected in his
writings. In this he is always himself, and his
purpose, whether apparent or not, is essentially
moral.
In Mr. Eraser's preface to Nizamat Jung's
sonnets published in London in 1918 occurs the
following passage:
" To those who have met him, it may appear j
paradoxical to say that his tastes were at the /
.- same moment acutely fastidious and widely /
. sympathetic; but any one who has talked