CHAPTER XVIII 



THE DEDICATION x 



I DEDICATE to-day this Institute not merely a Laboratory 

 but a Temple. 



The power of physical methods applies to the estab- 

 lishment of that truth which can be realised directly 

 through our senses, or through the vast expansion of the 

 perceptive range by means of artificially created organs. 

 We still gather the tremulous message when the note of 

 the audible reaches the unheard. When human sight fails, 

 we continue to explore the region of the invisible. The 

 little that we can see is as nothing compared to the vastness 

 of that which we cannot. Out of the very imperfection of 

 his senses man has built himself a raft pf thought by which 

 he makes daring adventures on the great seas of the Un- 

 known. But there are other truths which will remain beyond 

 even the super-sensitive methods known to science. For 

 these we require faith, tested not in a few years but by an 

 entire life. And a temple is erected as a fit memorial for 

 the establishment of that truth for which faith was needed. 

 The personal, yet general, truth and faith whose establish- 

 ment this Institute commemorates is this : that when one 

 has gained the vision of a purpose to which he can and 

 must dedicate himself fully, then the closed doors will 

 be opened and the seemingly impossible become fully 

 attainable. 



1 Sir J. C. Bose's inaugural address in dedication of the Bose Institute, 

 November 30, 1917. , 



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