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have acknowledged him as a man who lived in
his own way undisturbed by circumstances ; and
all have admired him equally for his firmness
and constancy. We have to consider all this in
order to know him as he should be known, and
we have to give their due weight even to such
casual remarks as the following : —
" Your worth is only exceeded by your
modesty/' wrote Mr. E. A. Seaton (a former
Principal of the Nizam College), in 1929 when
Nizamat Jung was knighted. " I am glad you
have been made a British Knight. You are
just the ideal of what such a person should
be/' wrote an English lady to him in the same
year. " He is one of those who adorn whatever
they touch/' said Mr. Burnett (another Princi-
pal of the Nizam College) quoting Johnson's
Latin inscription to commemorate Goldsmith.
It may be remarked that Sir Nizamat Jung's
whole life, like his poetry, reveals a tendency
' ad athera' or upwards, as his motto suggests.
This tendency was always in him, but in the
earlier stages it could not be so easily detected
as in after years. A whole life-time was needed
to achieve such contentment, simplicity and
spiritual serenity.
It was as recently asj^g^that he received
this message from Sir William Barton (formerly
Resident at Hyderabad) : " We both admire
the calm philosophy with which you face life
in these difficult days. It is not every one who
can develop that inner calm which is so. strong