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# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 8/Epistles - Fourth Series/XC Shashi

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(Translated from Bengali)
To Swami Ramakrishnananda
DARJEELING,
20th April, 1897.
DEAR SHASHI,
All of you have doubtless reached Madras by this time. I should think Biligiri is certainly taking great care of you, and that Sadananda serves you as your attendant. In Madras the worship should be done in a completely Sattvic manner, without a trace of Rajas in it. I hope Alasinga has by now returned to Madras. Don't enter into wrangles with anybody — always maintain a calm attitude. For the present let the worship of Shri Ramakrishna be established and continued in the house of Biligiri. But see that the worship does not become very elaborate and long. Time thus saved should be utilised in holding classes and doing some preaching. It is good to initiate as many as you can. Supervise the work of the two papers, and help in whatever way you can. Biligiri has two widowed daughters. Kindly educate them and make special efforts that through them more such widowed women get a thorough grounding in their own religion and learn a little English and Sanskrit. But all this work should be done from a distance. One has to be exceedingly careful before young women. Once you fall, there is no way out, and the sin is unpardonable.
I am very sorry to hear that Gupta was bitten by a dog; but I hear that the dog was not a mad one, so there is no cause for alarm. In any case, see that he takes the medicine sent by Gangadhar.
Early morning, finish daily your worship and other duties briefly, and calling together Biligiri with his family, read before them the Gita and other sacred books. There is not the least necessity for teaching the divine Love of Râdhâ and Krishna. Teach them pure devotion to Sitâ-Râm and Hara-Pârvati. See that no mistake is made in this respect. Remember that the episodes of the divine relationship between Radha and Krishna are quite unsuitable for young minds. Specially Biligiri and other followers of Râmânujâchârya are worshippers of Rama; so see to it that their innate attitude of pure devotion is never disturbed.
In the evenings give some spiritual teaching like that to the general public. Thus gradually "even the mountain is crossed". See that an atmosphere of perfect purity is always maintained, and that there enters not the slightest trace of Vâmâchâra. For the rest, the Lord Himself will guide you, there is no fear. Give to Biligiri my respectful salutations and loving greetings, and convey my salutations to similar devotees.
My illness is now much less — it may even be cured completely, if the Lord wills. My love, blessings, and greetings to you.
Yours affectionately,
VIVEKANANDA.
PS. Please tender my specially affectionate greetings and blessings to Dr. Nanjunda Rao and help him as much as you can. Try your best to particularly encourage the study of Sanskrit among the non-Brahmins.
V.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 8/Epistles - Fourth Series/XCIII Sudhir

XCIII
ALMORA,
20th May, 1897.
DEAR SUDHIR,
Your letter gave me much pleasure. One thing, perhaps, I forget to tell you — to keep a copy of the letter you sent me. Also all important communications to the Math from different persons and to different persons should be copied and preserved.
I am very glad to learn that things are going on well, that the work there is steadily progressing as well as that of Calcutta.
I am all right now except for the fatigue of the travel which I am sure will go off in a few days.
My love and blessings to you all.
Yours,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 8/Epistles - Fourth Series/XCIV Marie

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To Marie Halboister
ALMORA,
2nd June, 1897.
DEAR MARIE,
I begin here my promised big chatty letter with the best intention as to its growth, and if it fails, it will be owing to your own Karma. I am sure you are enjoying splendid health. I have been very, very bad indeed; now recovering a bit — hope to recover very soon.
What about the work in London? I am afraid it is going to pieces. Do you now and then visit London? Hasn't Sturdy got a new baby?
The plains of India are blazing now. I cannot bear it. So I am here in this hill station — a bit cooler than the plains.
I am living in a beautiful garden belonging to a merchant of Almora — a garden abutting several miles of mountains and forests. Night before last a leopard came here and took away a goat from the flock kept in this garden. It was a frightful din the servants made and the barking of the big Tibet watchdogs. These dogs are kept chained at a distance all night since I am here, so that they may not disturb my sleep with their deep barks. The leopard thus found his opportunity and got a decent meal, perhaps, after weeks. May it do much good to him!
Do you remember Miss Müller? She has come here for a few days and was rather frightened when she heard of the leopard incident. The demand for tanned skins in London seems very great, and that is playing havoc with our leopards and tigers more than anything else.
As I am writing to you, before me, reflecting the afternoon's flow, stand long, long lines of huge snow peaks. They are about twenty miles as the crow flies from here, and forty through the circuitous mountain roads.
I hope your translations have been well received in the Countess's paper. I had a great mind and very good opportunity of coming over to England this Jubilee season with some of our Princes, but my physicians would not allow me to venture into work so soon. For going to Europe means work, isn't it? No work, no bread.
Here the yellow cloth is sufficient, and I would have food enough. Anyhow I am taking a much desired rest, hope it will do me good.
How are you going on with your work? With joy or sorrow? Don't you like to have a good rest, say for some years, and no work? Sleep, eat, and exercise; exercise, eat, and sleep — that is what I am going to do some months yet. Mr. Goodwin is with me. You ought to have seen him in his Indian clothes. I am very soon going to shave his head and make a full-blown monk of him.
Are you still practising some of the Yogas? Do you find any benefit from them? I learn that Mr. Martin is dead. How is Mrs. Martin — do you see her now and then?
Do you know Miss Noble? Do you ever see her? Here my letter comes to an end, as a huge dust storm is blowing over me, and it is impossible to write. It is all your Karma, dear Marie, for I intended to write so many wonderful things and tell you such fine stories; but I will have to keep them for the future, and you will have to wait.
Ever yours in the Lord,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 8/Epistles - Fourth Series/XCVI Miss Noble

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To Sister Nivedita
ALMORA,
4th July, 1897.
MY DEAR MISS NOBLE,
I am being played upon curiously by both good and evil influences from London these times here. . . . On the other hand, your letters are full of life and sunshine, and bring strength and hope to my spirits, and they sadly want these now. God knows.
Although I am still in the Himalayas, and shall be here for at least a month more, I started the work in Calcutta before I came, and they write progress every week.
Just now I am very busy with the famine, and except for training a number of young men for future work, have not been able to put more energy into the teaching work. The "feeding work" is absorbing all my energy and means. Although we can work only on a very small scale as yet, the effect is marvellous. For the first time since the days of Buddha, Brahmin boys are found nursing by the bed-side of cholera-stricken pariahs.
In India, lectures and teaching cannot do any good. What we want is Dynamic Religion. And that, "God willing", as the Mohammedans say, I am determined to show. . . . I entirely agree with the prospectus of your Society, and you may take for granted my agreement with everything you will do in the future. I have entire faith in your ability and sympathy. I already owe you an immense debt, and you are laying me every day under infinite obligations. My only consolation is that it is for the good of others. Else I do not deserve in the least the wonderful kindness shown to me by the Wimbledon friends. You good, steady, genuine English people, may the Lord always bless you. I appreciate you every day more and more from a distance. Kindly convey my love everlasting to __ and all the rest of our friends there.
With all love, yours ever in the Truth,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Consolation of Philosophy (James)/The Sorrows of Boethius

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Book I.
Summary.
Boethius' complaint (Song I.). CH. I. Philosophy appears to Boethius, drives away the Muses of Poetry, and herself laments (Song II.) the disordered condition of his mind. CH. II. Boethius is speechless with amazement. Philosophy wipes away the tears that have clouded his eyesight. CH. III. Boethius recognises his mistress Philosophy. To his wondering inquiries she explains her presence, and recalls to his mind the persecutions to which Philosophy has oftentimes from of old been subjected by an ignorant world. CH. IV. Philosophy bids Boethius declare his griefs. He relates the story of his unjust accusation and ruin. He concludes with a prayer (Song V.) that the moral disorder in human affairs may be set right. CH. V. Philosophy admits the justice of Boethius' self-vindication, but grieves rather for the unhappy change in his mind. She will first tranquillize his spirit by soothing remedies. CH. VI. Philosophy tests Boethius' mental state by certain questions, and discovers three chief causes of his soul's sickness: (1) He has forgotten his own true nature; (2) he knows not the end towards which the whole universe tends; (3) he knows not the means by which the world is governed.
# The Consolation of Philosophy (James)/The Perturbations of Passion

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Book I.
Song VII.
The Perturbations of Passion
Stars shed no light
Through the black night,
When the clouds hide;
And the lashed wave,
If the winds rave
O'er ocean's tide,—
Though once serene
As day's fair sheen,—
Soon fouled and spoiled
By the storm's spite,
Shows to the sight
Turbid and soiled.
Oft the fair rill,
Down the steep hill
Seaward that strays,
Some tumbled block
Of fallen rock
Hinders and stays.
Then art thou fain
Clear and most plain
Truth to discern,
In the right way
Firmly to stay,
Nor from it turn?
Joy, hope and fear
Suffer not near,
Drive grief away:
Shackled and blind
And lost is the mind
Where these have sway.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Watt, John Brown

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​Watt, John Brown, was appointed a member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales in June 1861, but resigned on leaving for England in March 1866. He was reappointed in Oct. 1874. In 1877 he presented the sum of £1000 to the University of Sydney to found an exhibition for students from primary schools. In April 1890 his seat in the Legislative Council became vacant owing to prolonged absence in England.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott

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​Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott, B.A., the eldest son of the Rev. H. C. M. Watson (q.v.), of St. John's, Christchurch, N.Z., was born on Dec. 20th, 1863, at Caulfield, Melbourne, of which parish his father was then incumbent. At the age of nine he was taken to New Zealand, on the occasion of his father's appointment to the cure of St. John's, Christchurch, and was educated at the grammar school of that town, and afterwards at Canterbury College. In May 1883 he graduated at the New Zealand University, and came to England early in 1885, where he has since lived. In 1887 Mr. Watson took up journalistic work, and was a frequent contributor to the St. James's Gazette and other papers. In 1888 he published "Marahuna: a Romance" (Longmans), and in the spring of 1890, "Lady FaintHeart" (Chapman & Hall), a novel in three volumes. Mr. Watson, who is now a regular contributor to the National (late Scots) Observer, has published a tale of adventure in the Maori war, called " The Web of the Spider" (Hutchinson & Co., 1891). He is joint author with Mr. J. M. Barrie, the novelist, of a play called Richard Savage, which was produced at a Criterion matinee in April 1891.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Waylen, Alfred Robert

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​Waylen, Alfred Robert, M.D., J.P. Colonial Surgeon, Western Australia, is a native of that colony, and qualified as M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A. Lond., and L.Mid.R.C.S. Eng. in 1856. He entered the colonial service in April 1859 as medical officer Swan District, and was for sixteen years in the Imperial medical service in charge of the Guildford convict depot and out-stations. He was appointed colonial surgeon in August 1873, medical officer of Perth prison in 1876, and is also president of the Medical Board and of the Central Board of Health. Dr. Waylen, who is an M.D. of Melbourne and a ​J. P. of Western Australia, and was a member of the Perth Commission for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, visited England in 1890. He married in 1887 Louisa, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Henry Walpole, vicar of Winslow, Bucks, and widow of Sir Luke S. Leake (q.v.). Dr. Waylen is one of the pioneers of the wine industry in Western Australia.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Webb, His Honour George Henry Frederick

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​Webb, His Honour George Henry Frederick, late Puisne Judge, Victoria, was the son of a naval officer who took part in the battle of Trafalgar, and was born about 1827. As a youth he entered the office of Mr. Gurney, the famous parliamentary shorthand writer, and soon became proficient in stenography. Mr. Webb emigrated to Melbourne, Victoria, in 1852, and was for some time a reporter on the Argus. In 1855 he was appointed shorthand writer to the Government of Victoria. Having decided to embrace the legal profession, he attended the lectures on law given at the University of Melbourne by Mr. H. S. Chapman and Mr. Wilberforce Stephen and subsequently read in the latter's chambers. In 1860 Mr. Webb was called to the Victorian Bar and appointed a lecturer on law at the University of Melbourne. The latter appointment he quickly resigned, as also the position of Government shorthand writer in 1866. Having for a long period been recognised as the leader of the Equity Bar in Victoria, he was in 1874 offered the puisne judgeship rendered vacant by the death of Mr. Justice Williams, father of the present judge of that name. He was, however, indisposed to make the pecuniary sacrifice which acceptance would have necessitated. Having become Q.C. and continued to practise with unrivalled success, he was elevated to the Bench in May 1886 in place of the late Sir Robert Molesworth, and fulfilled his judicial functions down to the time of his death. Though on several occasions a candidate, he never succeeded in securing his return to the Legislative Assembly, and was also defeated when he contested a seat in the Legislative Council. The late judge, who was a member of the Congregational body, died at his residence, Caulfield, near Melbourne, on Sept. 26th, 1891, at the age of sixty-four.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Watterston, David

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​Watterston, David, editor of the Australasian, was born in Haddingtonshire ​(East Lothian) in 1845, being the youngest son of James Watterston, of Balgone Barns. The family, after spending a year in Gottland, in the Baltic Sea, went to Australia, arriving in April 1853. After acting as clerk in an attorney's office in Melbourne, Mr. Watterston removed to Queensland in May 1860, and in October of the same year, commenced his connection with the press. He learned reporting on the Ipswich Herald (afterwards the Queensland Times) under Mr. Hall, who set him in the way of studying shorthand. From Ipswich he went to Brisbane in 1865, to undertake parliamentary reporting. He was several years in the gallery for the Brisbane Courier and next on the Guardian, from which paper, in June 1869, he obtained promotion to the parliamentary staff of the Argus, Melbourne, returning to Victoria after nine years' absence. Mr. Watterston executed various special commissions for the Argus, being sent to the United States in 1876, for six months, in connection with the Philadelphia Exhibition. He went to England in 1879, to report on the movements of the Berry-Pearson embassy. Mr. Watterston was appointed chief of the Argus reporting staff in 1881, and four years later, on the editorship of the Australasian becoming vacant, he had that position given to him, the Australasian being a weekly literary, sporting and agricultural journal, started by the proprietors of the Argus in 1864.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Watson, Rev. Henry Crocker Marriott

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​Watson, Rev. Henry Crocker Marriott, was born at Prossers, in Tasmania, on Nov. 9th, 1835, and is on the father's side of Irish descent, his grandfather being of Tipperary, the family estate, "Brook Watson," near Nenagh, having, only as recently as 1857, passed into other hands. Mr. Watson's father, Brereton Rolla Ross Porter Bloomfield Watson, emigrated in 1821, when very young, to Tasmania where he married Miss Catherine Wade. Mr. Watson was educated in Tasmania, and having decided to study for holy orders, became a teacher. Migrating in 1858 to Victoria, he was appointed to the office of reader in the parish of St. Peter's, Melbourne, and as the result of his studies gained an exhibition worth £100 a year to Moor College, Sydney. After completing his course there, he was ordained deacon by Bishop Perry in Melbourne in 1860, and was appointed to the curacy of Christ Church, Ballarat, which he held till 1862, in which year he took priest's orders. On March 7th, 1863, he married Annie Macdonald, eldest daughter of John Wright, of Hobart. The same year he was appointed incumbent of St. Mary's, Caulfield, near Melbourne. This preferment he held till 1864. Mr. Watson was incumbent of Tarradale and Malmesbury, in Victoria, from the latter year till 1867, subsequently of Inglewood and Tarnagulla, and of Christ Church, Kilmore, from 1870 to 1873. In the latter year he removed to New Zealand, where he became incumbent of St. John's, Christchurch, a position he still holds. In 1885-6, whilst on a visit to England, Mr. Watson acted as deputational secretary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and again in 1889-90. Mr. Watson has published "Adventures in New Guinea" (1875); "Erchomenon; or, Republic of Materialism" (Sampson Low, 1879); "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire; or, The Witches' Cavern" (Treschler, 1890).
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Way, Arthur S.

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​Way, Arthur S., M.A., son of the Rev. William Way, was born at Dorking, in Surrey, in 1847, and educated at Kingswood School,and Queen's College, Taunton. He graduated at the London University in 1870; and took his M.A. degree in 1873. He was Classical Lecturer at Queen's College, Taunton, from 1873 to 1875, when he was appointed vice-headmaster of Kingswood School He was elected to the headmastership of Wesley College, Melbourne, in 1881, and arrived in Victoria in February of the following year. Mr. Way published, "The Odes of Horace, literally translated in Metre" in 1875; "The Odyssey of Homer done into English Verse" (by Avia), in 1880; and in 1885 appeared the first part of his "Homer's Iliad in English Verse" (Books 1 to 6), followed by Books 7 to 11 in 1886, and Books 12 and 13 in 1888.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Way, His Honour the Hon. Samuel James

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​Way, His Honour the Hon. Samuel James, Chief Justice and Lieut.-Governor of South Australia, is the son of the late Rev. James Way, a Bible Christian minister, who emigrated to South Australia in 1850, and became general superintendent of the Bible Christian societies of Australia. The Chief Justice was born at Portsmouth in April 1836, and, after a private education at Shebbear and Maidstone, joined his father in South Australia in March 1853. He was admitted to the Colonial Bar in March 1861, and quickly took up a leading position in his profession, being made Q.C. in Sept. 1871. Mr. Way was elected a member of the Board of Education in Feb. 1874, and in November of the same year a member of the council of the University of Adelaide. Vice-Chancellor in succession to Bishop Short in 1876, and Chancellor in 1883. It was not till 1875 that Mr. Way participated actively in politics, and in February of that year he was returned to the Legislative Assembly for the Sturt district. In June 1875 he occupied the post of Attorney-General in the Boucaut Ministry, but resigned it in March 1871 on being appointed to succeed the late Sir R. D. Hanson as Chief Justice of South Australia. Mr. Way has, it is understood, on no less than three occasions declined the honour of knighthood and has discharged the duties of administrator of the government in the temporary absence of governors, and in the interregna between the departure of one governor and the arrival of his successor, nearly a dozen times; and it was therefore only a fitting compliment which was conferred on him in 1890, when he was appointed the first Lieutenant-Governor of the colony.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wearing, Hon. William

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​Wearing, Hon. William, formerly Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia, was born in London on Nov. 12th, 1816, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., and was called to the bar of Lincoln's Inn in May 1847. A year later he emigrated to South Australia, and practised at the local Bar, being made Q.C., and subsequently Crown Solicitor. In 1867 he was appointed Third Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia. He was drowned in the wreck of the Gothenburg on the Barrier Reef, Torres Straits, on the night of Feb. 24th, 1875, whilst on his return from holding the first Circuit Court at Palmerston, Northern Territory.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Watson, Hon. James

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​Watson, Hon. James, M.L.C., J.P., was born at Portadown, in co. Armagh, Ireland, on Dec. 17th, 1836, and educated at the Church of England school in his native town. He emigrated to the colony of New South Wales early in life, and engaged in mercantile pursuits, becoming a partner in the firm of John Frazer & Co., of Sydney. He was returned to the Assembly for the Lachlan district in 1869, and subsequently represented Young. Mr. Watson was Colonial Treasurer in the Parkes Administration from Dec. 1878 to Jan. 1883, and in Feb. 1887 was called to the Legislative Council. Mr. Watson married on April 8th, 1871, Miss Margaret Salmon Ewan.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Couchman, Lieut.-Col. Thomas

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​Couchman, Lieut.-Col. Thomas, was appointed a foreman in the Survey Department of Victoria in 1853; Assistant Surveyor in 1854; District Surveyor in 1854; Chief Mining Surveyor of Victoria in Jan. 1867; Secretary for Mines in Jan. 1877; a member of the Public Service Board in Feb. 1884, and Chairman of the Board in 1889, which position he still occupies. He served in the Volunteers from 1860 to 1883, and retired as Lieutenant-Colonel.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Counsel, Edward Albert

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​Counsel, Edward Albert, was born at Piper's River, Northern Tasmania, in 1849. Was appointed Government District Surveyor of the Oatlands district in 1880. In 1889 he was placed at the head of the Survey Department of Tasmania, with the title of Deputy Surveyor-General, in succession to the late Charles P. Sprent.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Courthope, Edward L.

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​Courthope, Edward L., Auditor-General, Western Australia, entered the Civil Service of Western Australia as clerk in the Audit Office in 1847, and was appointed secretary to the Board of Education in 1854, and Acting Auditor-General in 1863. He resumed his duties as clerk in the ​Audit Office in 1805, and was appointed Registrar-General in 1871, being promoted to the Auditor-Generalship in 1872.