1901.] on the Response of Inorganic Matter to Stimulus. 639 



that there is no abrupt break, but one uniform and continuous 

 march of law ? 



If it be so, we shall but turn with renewed courage to the investi- 

 gation of mysteries which have long eluded us. For every step of 

 science has been made by the inclusion of what seemed contradictory 

 or capricious in a new and harmonious simplicity. Her advances 

 have been always towards a clearer perception of underlying unity in 

 apparent diversity. 



It was when I came upon the mute witness of these self-made 

 records, and perceived in them one phase of a pervading unity that 

 bears within it all things — the mote that quivers in ripples of light, 

 the teeming life upon our earth, and the radiant suns that shine 

 above us — it was then that I understood for the first time a little of 

 that message proclaimed by my ancestors on the banks of the Ganges 

 thirty centuries ago — 



" They who see but one, in all the changing manifoldness of this 

 universe, unto them belongs Eternal Truth — unto none else, unto 

 none else ! " 



