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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
if suitably influenced. But when "killed by poison," like the plant or animal, it does not respond. European thinkers and biologists have so far assigned the presence
and Dr.
'Vital Force' of a separate vital force' in the physical Bose's super- phenomenon connected with the living
physical Power.
organism. In place of any real explanation, a hypothetical nomenclature was used either to explain away or to clothe in a greater mystery the most complex phenomena that we ever come across. From this position with its assumption of superphysical character of response, it is clear that on the discovery by Dr. J. C. Bose, the most renowned Bengalee scientist of the day, of similar effects in inorganic substances, the necessity of theoretically maintaining such Dualism in Nature, must fall to the ground. There is, therefore, not any unknown arbitrary vital force as Physiologists have taught us to suppose but a law, the working of which, knows no change, nor any deviation, but which, as the Victors hold, acts uniformly from within throughout the inorganic and the organic worlds.
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