India's Age-old Culture:
Its Influence on Science:
High Official Retirement aes Our Own Catentta, Oct. 8
Bir J. ©. Bose recently returned to India from a tour in Europe de-Voted mainly to a series-of demontrations of his "resonant cardiograph" before scientific societies. His "Plant Autographs and Their Revelations", which was published about a month ago, has been se-corded an enthusiastic reception in the Western world and is to be translated into French and German, Sir Jagadish states that he nearly has completed another new Invention of great importance. In Nagpur, after his arrival, the famous scientist, in. the course of a Yecture entitled:—"The Unity of Life", had some interesting things to say regarding India's qualifications for furthering—knowleds Although geience was neither of the ast nor of the West, but was international in its universality, said, India, by her habits of mind and inherited gifts handed down from generation to generation, was especially' fitted for contributing. important additions to scientific Knowledge. There were two clements essential for the discovery of truth—the faculty of imagination and subsequent verification by ob-Jective methods. He pointed out that the instruments devised at the Bose Institute, which were revenling the wonders of a new world, all had been constructed by Indian mechanicians trained in his institute, He concluded:—"There is_something in Indian culture that is possessed of extraordinary—latent strength, by which it has resisted the ravages of time and the structive chauies which have swept over the earth, Indeed, the ap: city to endure through infinite transformations must. be innate in that mighty civilization that has een the intellectual life of the Nile Valley, of Assyria, and of Babylon wax, wane, and disappear, and which to-day gazes on the future with the same invincible faith with which it met the changing problems of the past."
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