Asia magazine, March 1923, article about Jagadis Chandra Bose

Asia: The American Magazine on the Orient, Indian Number, March 1923, including an article about Jagadis Chadra Bose by Waldemar Kaempffert titled “An Indian Master-Mind in Science.” Worn cover, especially heavy on the spine, which has a section missing on the bottom; tears on front and back edges and along the spine. An old price is penciled on the last A of ASIA. The cover wraps around the interior but is no longer attached. The pages are very good and tightly bound by staples.

A section of the Bose article is quoted in a footnote in Paramahansa Yogananda’s God Talks With Arjuna (pp 943-44n), including the following: “The Indian who synthesizes the teachings of his forefathers with the revelations of modern scientific research finds that every fiber in a green, apparently sluggish mass of foliage is infused with sensibility. Flowers and plants cease to be merely a few clustered petals, a few green leaves growing from a woody stem. They are man’s organic kin. Thus this scientist’s researches confirm not only Vedantic teachings, but the deep worldwide philosophic conviction that beneath the chaotic, bewildering diversity of nature there is an underlying unity.”