The garden held a small temple
consecrated to the Noumenon beyond phenomena. Thought of the divine
incorporeity was suggested by absence of any altar-image.
[Illustration: Myself at Age six--see atsix.jpg]
[Illustration: JAGADIS CHANDRA BOSE, India's great physicist,
botanist, and inventor of the Crescograph--see bose.jpg]
Bose's speech on this great occasion might have issued from the
lips of one of the inspired ancient RISHIS.
"I dedicate today this Institute as not merely a laboratory but
a temple." His reverent solemnity stole like an unseen cloak over
the crowded auditorium. "In the pursuit of my investigations I was
unconsciously led into the border region of physics and physiology.
To my amazement, I found boundary lines vanishing, and points
of contact emerging, between the realms of the living and the
non-living. Inorganic matter was perceived as anything but inert;
it was athrill under the action of multitudinous forces.
"A universal reaction seemed to bring metal, plant and animal under
a common law. They all exhibited essentially the same phenomena
of fatigue and depression, with possibilities of recovery and of
exaltation, as well as the permanent irresponsiveness associated
with death. Filled with awe at this stupendous generalization, it
was with great hope that I announced my results before the Royal
Society--results demonstrated by experiments. But the physiologists
present advised me to confine myself to physical investigations, in
which my success had been assured, rather than encroach on their
preserves.
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