think when I see young people exhibiting failings 

 inherent in youth that they are after all only 

 suffering from one of the temporary maladies 

 which time must cure, and from a malady, more- 

 over, which many of us would like to enjoy. 



Life is a wonderful thing, whether in youth or 

 in age, in its earliest protoplasmic dawn or in the 

 zenith of its development in the lord of the ani- 

 mal kingdom. But what is life and what is the 

 test of life ? The test of life is, I imagine, gener- 

 ally acknowledged to be the capability of response 

 to stimulus. That, however, being the case, Pro- 

 fessor Bose has shown conclusively that living 

 response in all its varied manifestations is ex- 

 hibited by what is known as the inorganic as well 

 as by the organic. He demonstrates in a series 

 of patient and convincing experiments that metals 

 betray evidences of response precisely similar to 

 those which are accepted in the organic as the 

 unfailing testimony of life; that the response in 

 metals may be stimulated and repressed by the 

 administration of exciting or depressing drugs, 

 and that there is no break of continuity in the 

 essential condition of life between the inorganic 

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