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audience of some fifteen hundred people, the discoveries 

 made here, which will be demonstrated for the first time 

 before the public. We shall thus maintain continuously 

 the highest aim of a great Seat of Learning by taking 

 active part in the advancement and diffusion of knowledge. 

 Through the regular publication of the Transactions of the 

 Institute, these Indian contributions will reach the whole 

 world. The discoveries made will thus become public 

 property. Besides the regular staff there will be a selected 

 number of scholars, who by their work have shown special 

 aptitude, and who would devote their whole life to the 

 pursuit of research. They will require personal training 

 and their number must necessarily be limited. But it is 

 not the quantity but quality that is of essential importance. 

 It is my further wish that, as far as the limited 

 accommodation would permit, the facilities of this 

 Institute should be available to workers from all countries. 

 In this I am attempting to carry out the traditions of my 

 country, which, so far back as twenty-five centuries ago, 

 welcomed all scholars from different parts of the world 

 within the precincts of its ancient seats of learning at 

 Nalanda and at Taxila. 



THE SURGE OF LIFE 



With this widened outlook, we shall not only maintain 

 the highest traditions of the past but also serve the world 

 in nobler ways. We shall be at one with it in feeling the 

 common surgings of life, the common love for the good, 

 the true and the beautiful. In this Institute, this Study 

 and Garden of Life, the claim of art has not been forgotten, 

 for the artist has been working with us, from foundation to 

 pinnacle, and from floor to ceiling of this very Hall. And 

 beyond that arch, the Laboratory merges imperceptibly 

 into the garden, which is the true laboratory for the study 

 of Life % There the creepers, the plants and the trees are 

 played upon by their natural environments sunlight 



