216 LIFE AND WORK OF SIR JAGADIS C. ROSE 



overwhelmingly dominant, and man is no longer passive in 

 the hands of destiny. There is a latent power which would 

 raise him above the terrors of his inimical surroundings. It 

 remains with him that the channels through which the outside 

 world reaches him should at his command be widened or become 

 closed. It would thus be possible for him to catch those in- 

 distinct messages that have hitherto passed by him unperceived ; 

 or he may withdraw within himself, so that in his inner realm, 

 the jarring notes and the din of the world should no longer 

 affect him. 



