PERSONALITY OF PLANTS 
animals and plants against wanton destruction. 
Is not the equality of the three kingdoms of life 
hinted at in the following passage from Jonah? 
“Thou hast had pity on the Gourd, for the 
which thou hast not laboured, neither madest 
it grow; which came up in a night, and per- 
ished in a night.” 
“And I shall not spare Nineveh, that great 
city, wherein are more than six score thousand 
persons that cannot discern between their right 
hand and their left hand and also much cattle.” 
Some marvelous experiments carried on by Sir 
Jaghadish Chaundra Bose in Calcutta, India, 
offer interesting light on the higher life of 
plants. By exceptionally delicate and ingenious 
instruments, Sir Jaghadish has been able to 
measure the plant movements associated with 
growth, shock and response to stimuli in gen- 
eral. He has come to the conclusion that plants 
not only have a conscious intelligence, but have 
their good and bad days, their moods, their 
whims. He believes they react to slight or 
pleasurable ‘stimuli by general expansion 
Violent stimuli cause pain and contraction. A 
plant struck a blow quivers and shakes in 
[210] 
