in plants. In
full confirmation of his theory, he succeeded in conferring on the
nervous tissue two opposite dispositions. Under favourable disposition
the nerve is rendered supra-conducting; subliminal stimulus now becomes
fully perceived. Under the opposite molecular disposition the violent
impulse due to excessive stimulus becomes weakened or arrested during
transit, and the plant remains quite unaffected by the external shock.

The lecturer has in his previous works demonstrated the unity of
life-reactions in the plant and animal. A climax is now reached when by
the application of identical treatment he is able to confer alternately
on the same animal nerve, supra-conducting or non-conducting property at
will. Under a particular molecular disposition the experimental frog
perceived and responded to stimulus which had hitherto been below its
threshold of perception. Under the opposite disposition violent tetanic
spasm caused by the irritant salt applied to the nerve became at once
quelled. The normal property of the nerve was at once restored on the
withdrawal of the predisposing force.

MAN VICTORIOUS OVER CIRCUMSTANCE

Thus by the control of molecular disposition of the conducting nerve,
nervous impulse, and the resulting sensation may become profoundly
modified. The external is not so overwhelmingly dominant, and man is not
to be merely 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 reach
him should, at his command be widened or become closed. It may thus be
possible for him to catch those indistinct messages that had hitherto
eluded him 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.

The whole audience heard the discourse with spell bound interest. The
Indian Scientist came to that realisation by experiments at which the
Indian Jogis of yore arrived by intuition. Following an absolutely
original line inventing his own apparatus of the most simple yet subtle
delicacy and having constructed them by the hands of Indian artisans,
working without collaborators and with the smallest modicum of
recognition by his fellow scientists, he has pursued his investigation
to a result which has been a revelation to the whole world. Dr. Bose has
proved that man and plant are one body and l