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in commercial schemes. But Dr. Bose not only demonstrated the existence of these particular etheric waves. He proved himself as great in constructive ability as in research itself, & his instrument, popularly known as the Artificial Eye, was considered a marvel of compactness & simplicity. Prince Kropotkin was talking of how Prof. Thomson the week before at the Royal Institn. had exhibited an apparatus some yards long, to act as a polariser of light— and Prof. Bose, the following week, to do the same thing, simply took up a book ( it happened to be a Bradshaw ) & showed how the rays wa. pass one way & not the other. “I said to myself", said Prince K, “that this was the simplicity of the highest genius." But of course Prof. Bose was only able to perform this great simplification of methods because his theory was so much more sound than those of his English & German competitors in this field. He began to publish Papers through the Royal Society in, I think, the year 1894. From that date, working under all his difficulties as he was, he published 2 or 3 every year till he left for París in 1900. (One Paper in 2 years is considered a good record for a life that is surrounded by advantages. ) And Prof. Bose's work was in each case completely original & in a special sense accurate & exhaustive. He was like a man haunted by the fear that if he failed at any point his people wil. be held to have no right to education. “Everyone knows that we have brilliant imagination" he told me, when he was fighting against death in > 3 >