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CHAPTER VI
THE PHILOSOPHICAL REVOLUTION
“We live in an age of science. Most people think that cience hus served humanity by producing clectric light, motor cars, acroplanes etc. That is only a partial view. In fact, feu realise the outlook that science has produced during the lust two hundred years. Science has given us a neu l'icw of the universe............"
“The future of India depends on « courageous arrlicution of scientific knowledge. As man learns to apply the scientific method to the problems of cvcry day life, in that measure he will rise to and reach his allotted height. Let the dogs of conservatism, ignorance and fanaticism bark, but the glorious caravan of the Indian nation will move on with irresistible force."-Sir C. V. Raman.*
How many of the graduates—the trusted and sanguine custodians of India's future fully grasped the revolutionary implication of the momentous utterance ? Lest it should be drowned in the din of doubtful wisdom and platitudinous preachings, that fill the intellectual atmosphere of our country, the progressive youth might profitably remember, and reflect upon the weighty utterance of the distinguished savant.
One of the greatest scientists of our days, very creditably for himself, advocates a philosophical
* At the Convocation of the University of Bombay, 1932.
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