History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

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of the people, called after him. Besides, I think we may well wish to perpetuate among the worthies who have a place in this hall, or our public streets, the likeness of a man who has conferred such great benefits upon the community, and who will leave behind him so bright an example of all the qualities which dignify the acquisition of wealth, and render its possession a blessing. Most civilised nations, both in ancient and modern times, have adopted this mode of honouring distinguished public virtues and services. At Athens we read that the porticoes were crowded with statues, and at Rome the number in the forum became so great that the censors, P. Cornelius Scipio and M. Papilius, removed all those which had not been erected with the sanction of the senate and the people. It is not likely that such an accumulation will take place anywhere in modern times,—least of all is it likely in India; but if it were possible, I would venture to predict that no future censor would be found to direct the removal of the statue of Sir Jamshedji Jijibhai from the spot where it is to be placed, and that it will remain to distant generations a monument of the civic virtues of the man, and of the gratitude of the community.” The statue thus resolved upon was executed in marble by the famous Italian artist, Baron Marochetti, at a cost of £4,000. It adorns the town-hall of Bombay by the side of those of his old friends Sir