Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, His Life and SpeechesBose, Jagadis Chandra
Science
Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, His Life and Speeches
Bose, Jagadis Chandra
Science
Relieved of the trammels of service, Dr. Bose felt the necessity for
realising a dream that wove a network round his wakeful life for years
past--for establishing an Institute--a Study and Garden of Life--where
the creepers, plants and trees would be played upon by their natural
environment and would transcribe in their own script the history of
their experience, where "the student would watch the panorama of life"
and, "isolated from all distractions, would learn to attune himself with
Nature and to see how community throughout the great ocean of life
outweighs apparent the dissimilarity," and where "the genius of India
would find its true blossoming," where the "synthetical intellectual
methods of the East would co-operate with the analytical methods of the
West," and whence would emanate a rich and peculiar current of thought
and to which would be attracted votaries from all lands.[46]
THE BOSE INSTITUTE
Though the realisation of such a glorious Institute would not be
effected through one life or one fortune, he wanted to accomplish
something--something, so far as it lay in his power. So he proceeded to
build and equip an Institute--the "Bose Institute"--at a cost of about 5
lakhs, the entire savings of his lifetime. While it was being
constructed Their Excellencies the Viceroy and the Governor of Bengal
paid a visit to Dr. Bose's private laboratory. On the 30th November
1917--the anniversary of his sixtieth birthday--he dedicated the
Institute to the Nation, for the progress of Science and for the Glory
of India.
THE AIMS OF THE INSTITUTE
In this Institute, Dr. Bose intends to go on with "the further and
fuller investigation of the many and ever-opening problems of the
nascent science which includes both Life and None Life" and wants to
train up a devoted band of workers, with the Sanyasin mind, who would
keep alive the flame kindled by him, and who, by acute observation and
patient experiment would "wring out from Nature some of her most
jealously guarded secrets" and who would thus lead to the establishment
of a great Indian School of Science and to the "building of the greater
India yet to be." There would be no academic limitation here to the
widest possible diffusion of knowledge. The facilities of the Institute
would be available to workers from all countries and there would be no
desecration of knowledge here by its utilisation for personal gain--no
patent would be taken of the discoveries here made. The high aim of a
great Seat of Learning would be sought to be maintained here. The
lectures here given would not be mere repetitions, second-hand knowledge
but would announce for the first time to the world the new discoveries
here made.[47]
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