y rigorous experimental
demonstration, realised a Unity amidst Diversity. He perceived that
"there was no such thing as brute matter, but that spirit suffused
matter in which it was enshrined."[49]

EFFECT OF HIS WORK

It is impossible to estimate the effect of his epoch-making researches.
The psychic stone flung by him into the pool of physical botany, has
made the ripples run in so many directions. There have been produced
"unexpected revelations in plant life, foreshadowing the wonders of the
highest animal life." And there "have opened out very extended regions
of inquiry in Physics, in Physiology, in Medicine, in Agriculture and
even in Psychology. Problems, hitherto regarded as insoluble, have now
been brought within the sphere of experimental investigation."

Sir J.C. Bose has not only extended the distant boundaries of Science,
but, by his peculiarly Indian contribution, has secured a recognised
place for India and has revived a hope in the Indian mind that India
may yet regain a place among the intellectual nations of the world. Men
like him are rare not only in India but rare any where in the world. May
he live long!

[Footnote 1: Vide 'History of a Failure that was great'--Modern Review,
Vol. XXI, p. 221.]

[Footnote 2: Vide 'History of a Failure that was great'--Modern Review.
Vol. XXI p. 221.]

[Footnote 3: _Vide_ 'History of a failure that was great'--Modern
Review, Vol. XXI, p 221.]

[Footnote 4: 'History of a Failure that was great'--Modern Review. Vol,
XXI, p. 221.]

[Footnote 5: Convocation Address, dated 2nd March 1907, delivered by Sir
Ashutosh Mookerjea.]

[Footnote 6: Vide Evidence of Dr. J. C. Bose before the Public Services
Commission,--Vol. XX, p. 136.]

[Footnote 7: Address to the Royal Society by its President, Sir Benjamin
Brodie, 30th November 1859.]

[Footnote 8: 1 metre = 39.4 inches]

[Footnote 9: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Vol IX, p. 206.]

[Footnote 10: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Vol. IX, p. 206.]

[Footnote 11: See 'History of a Discovery'--Modern Review, Vol. XVIII,
p. 693.]

[Footnote 12: See 'Voice of Life'--Modern Review, Vol. XII, p. 590.]

[Footnote 13: Vide 'History of a Discovery'--Modern Review, Vol. XVIII,
p. 694.]

[Footnote 14: Response in Living and Non-Living, p. 191.]

[Footnote 15: See 'Voice of Life'--Modern Review, Vol. XXII, p. 588.]

[Footnote 16: See 'History of a Discovery'--Modern Review, Vol. XVIII,
p. 694.]