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with him will recall the blend of high imper-
sonal ideas with a remarkable personality
which seldom failed to stimulate other minds —
even if those others shared few, if any, of his
intellectual tastes. The Nawab's personal in-
fluence has been more subtle and far-reaching
than he himself is yet aware. His love of poetry
and history, if on the one hand it has intensi-
fied his realisation of the sorrows and trage-
dies of earthly life, on the other hand has
equipped him with a power to awake in others
a vivid consciousness of the moral value of
literature through which (for the mere asking)
we, any of us, can find our way into a kingdom
of great ideas. This kingdom is also the king-
dom of eternal realities, or so at least it should
be/1
Such was the impression left on those who
knew him when he was young ; and what good
judges thought of him when he was older was
conveyed to him by an English friend who wrote
from London in 1938 :
" I in 1915 (and 1920) heard Sir James
Dunlop-Smith hold you up as a model of loyalty,
wisdom, culture, and constancy—anclT'fiave"
always so regarded you ; as one of the few who
in this anarchic and hideous modern world
(of false values and hypocrisy and deception)
remain true and just."
These remarks, if there was nothing else before
us, would be sufficient to interest people in the
study of his personality. There are people who