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

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possessed that virtue, not common among people now, in an eminent degree. It is a virtue too little exemplified by our Hindu friends,—who, I hope, will excuse me for so saying,—nor is it universal among the Parsis, but it is more so among them than among other classes. Framji Kavasji exercised that virtue more than others of his countrymen: he was a steady good citizen, bold enough to speak out his opinion, and energetic to exert himself to do his country good. ‘These virtues we are desirous to see universal,”

The institution thus founded to commemorate the name of Framji Kavasji is “The Framji Kavasji Institute,” now familiar to the citizens of Bombay, where public meetings in support of all laudable objects are held, and interesting lectures on scientific and other subjects are delivered.

Framji Kavasji was one of the foremost among those who assisted in the establishment of a good English newspaper in Bombay. In chronicling his death, which took place in the year 1851, Dr. Buist, the editor, thus described in the Bombay Times (now the Times of India) the circumstances which led to the establishment of that paper, and the interest which Framji took in bringing it into being :—‘ A vast addition to the number of the European community and increase to the mercantile enterprise of the Presidency having been occasioned by the operations