no LIFE AND WORK OF SIR JAGADIS C. BOSE 



Novgorod and Kieff , to Mount Athos, and again to Jerusalem. 

 And even in our Western cities, though the modern noises 

 of machinery and cannon may have deafened us to the 

 varying and ever-returning cadences of this pilgrims' chorus, 

 we may feel its old spirit. Even in Ulster itself, that 

 world-central survival of fanatic bitterness, we may still 

 stand near St. Patrick's tomb and see the peasant, before 

 he takes ship for America, scraping from above it a few 

 grains of its soil into an old envelope to carry in his bosom 

 till he dies, so that in that far-away alien land he may lie 

 amid dust thus hallowed for his folk and faith. And if we 

 have human feeling enough to respect a scene like this, 

 however strange to our modern ways, why not also, on our 

 way to India, respect the Haj/ which unifies another great 

 faith, after all a kindred one, albeit Unitarian and abstaining ? 

 Without some such sympathy how shall we understand our 

 own most modern as well as most ancient fellow-citizens, 

 the Jews, who beat us at our own games of business and 

 politics, because they bear so deep in their hearts the 

 memories and aspirations of their Holy City, and are even 

 now carrying these into its renewal ? 



It is with such preparation then and not simply with the 

 help of Baedeker and Murray, though brightened by all the 

 picturesquely-coloured reporting of Kipling, of Ste evens, and 

 the rest, or dulled by the school and college examination- 

 routine of our administrators, our professional and business 

 men, or by the conventionalities of politically-minded writers 

 of whatever school or race that we may best approach 

 and understand the greater aspects of India. For it is as a 

 spiritual unity, underlying all the innumerable but more 

 superficial differences, that India has primarily to be realised. 



We thus come to the Boses and their Indian travels. 

 The physical sciences are based on observation ; the natural 

 sciences yet more so ; but the social sciences need it most 

 of all. In and through travel the social interests of men 

 are peculiarly educated ; so that, though the traditionally 



