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An Indian Pioneer of Science. The Life and Work of Sir Jagadis C. Bose

1920

DIURNAL RECORD SHOWINVARIATION OF SENSIBILITY OF MIMOSA. 203 THE LIFE AND WORK OF SIR JAGADIS C. BOSE CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION THE boy is father of the man.' Hence the writers of biographies have always sought to learn and tell all they could of the early environment of their subjects ; for these formative influences and the response of childhood and youth to them are ofte [...] The contrast the mingling and the clashing of peasant and fisher populations so deeply formative throughout the history of Mediterranean and Western Europe have long been here in evidence though of course on the smaller scale of a river system as compared with seas and coasts and thus operative on the small scale instead of the great. [...] Yet tales also of the courage of the defenders now of their defeat and robbery or again of their successful resistance ; tales of his own narrow escapes and of the death of companions or their capture and finally of his own : all these tales and more were vividly told again and again to the wondering child. [...] Thanks to the good early start given by the Jatras the old popular plays mentioned above he grew more and more interested in the stories of the Mahbharata ' and Ramayana.' In the latter the character of Rama and still more the soldierly devotion of his brother Lakshmana impressed him ; but ' the characters were mostly too good too perfect.' It was the old warriors of the Mahabharata ' mo [...] The writer's argment of impracticability joined to those of the architect at the time discouraged them ; yet we see that the mature Director of the Bose Institute may still be constrained by22 LIFE AND WORK OF SIR JAGADIS C. BOSE his inmost and subconscious self to introduce them despite all our arguments 1 For not simply is the boy the father of the man : the boy is the man ; and the happi
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Pages
278
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.146288
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Frontmatter
i-xii Patrick Geddes view
Chapter I Childhood and Early Education
1-22 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter II College Days at Calcutta and in England
23-31 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter III Early Struggles
32-44 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter IV First Researches in Physics
45-60 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter V Further Physical Research and Its Appreciation
61-70 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter VI Physical Researches Continued
71-85 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter VII Response in the Living and Non-Living
86-107 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter VIII Holidays and Pilgrimages
108-119 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter IX Plant Response
120-136 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter X Irritability of Plants
137-152 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter XI the Automatic Record of Growth
153-160 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter XII Various Movements in Plants
161-171 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter XIII the Response of Plants to Wireless Stimulation
172-180 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter XIV Tropisms
181-192 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter XV the Sleep of Plants
193-204 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter XVI Psycho-Physics
205-216 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter XVII Friendships and Personality
217-226 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter XVIII the Dedication1
227-241 Patrick Geddes view
Chapter XIX the Bose Institute
242-256 Patrick Geddes view
Index
257-259 Patrick Geddes view

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