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!
Footnotes
[1] Vide 'History of a Failure that was great'—Modern Review, Vol. XXI, p. 221.
[2] Vide 'History of a Failure that was great'—Modern Review. Vol. XXI p. 221.
[3] Vide 'History of a failure that was great'—Modern Review, Vol. XXI, p 221.
[4] 'History of a Failure that was great'—Modern Review. Vol, XXI, p. 221.
[5] Convocation Address, dated 2nd March 1907, delivered by Sir Ashutosh Mookerjea.
[6] Vide Evidence of Dr. J. C. Bose before the Public Services Commission,—Vol. XX, p. 136.
[7] Address to the Royal Society by its President, Sir Benjamin Brodie, 30th November 1859.