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without parallel in the records of the India Office, and we 

 may take it as a fine and peculiarly agreeable promise of a 

 new spirit in the governmental conception of India. The 

 lecture-room was filled with a distinguished and highly 

 representative audience, whose response was immediate 

 and enthusiastic. They were shown a typical series of 

 results, and were given a demonstration of the powers of 

 the Magnetic Crescograph, which was doubtless for those 

 present a startling revelation of the widening world of 

 experimental knowledge. 



So great was the interest excited that full summaries 

 of the lecture were cabled to the Continent and to America, 

 while the British Press accorded to the discourse an amount 

 of space, and to the Indian savant a warmth of apprecia- 

 tion, which is unusual in newspaper treatment of scientific 

 events. A leading article in The Times contained the 

 following passage : 



Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose is a fine example of the fertile 

 union between the immemorial mysticism of Indian philosophy, 

 and the experimental methods of Western science. Whilst we 

 in Europe were still steeped in the rude empiricism of barbaric 

 life, the subtle Eastern had swept the whole universe into a 

 synthesis and had seen the one in all its changing manifestations. 

 . . . He is pursuing science not only for itself but for its applica- 

 tion to the benefit of mankind. We welcome the additions to 

 knowledge which he has made, but most of all we welcome in 

 him the evidence that India and Great Britain can unite their 

 genius to mutual advantage. 



Professor J. Arthur Thomson wrote in the course of an 

 article in the New Statesman : 



It is in accordance with the genius of India that the in- 

 vestigator should press further towards unity than we have 

 yet hinted at, should seek to correlate responses and memory 

 impressions in the living with their analogues in inorganic 

 matter, and should see in anticipation the lines of physics, of 

 physiology and of psychology converging and meeting. (These 

 are) questionings of a prince of experimenters whom we are 

 proud to welcome in our midst to-day. 



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