Book Title: Jain Philosophy and Modern Science
Author(s): Nagrajmuni
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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________________ PHILOSOHPY & SCIENCE who thinks that he can come to a conclusion about things which are beyond his experience must take a lesson from this" The French Academy of Science appointed a commission to go into the truth about the falling of meteors in Lusse Though many eyewitnesses deposed to the commission that they had seen the meteors fall, none of them was relied upon It was stated by the commission that the meteors (stones) had not fallen from the sky but that they were stones from the earth itself and that they had been struck by lightning Something, worse than even this, had yet to follow On 24th July in the year 1890 meteors fell in South-west France At this time a large number of meteors had fallen and they had all penetrated into the surface of the earth Many other things like lights etc had been witnessed by hundreds of people More than three hundred eyewitness accounts were produced most of them having been stated on oath-along with the pieces of meteoric stones The scientific Journals published these reports but only with the object of laughing at the foolishness and the superstition of the people It is interesting to quote Birthland here, who, it is said, represented the unprejudiced opinion of many scientists He observes "What comments should we give on the report of the commission? The story is basically false, it is physically impossible and it cannot be believed because it is given by eye-witnesses However, we leave it to the judgement of the intelligent reader)

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