Makers of modern chemistry / by Prafulla Chandra Rây ; with a foreword by P.J. Hartog.

  • Prafulla Chandra Ray
Date:
1925
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Credit: Makers of modern chemistry / by Prafulla Chandra Rây ; with a foreword by P.J. Hartog. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forget how much they owe to their intellectual ancestors. There is a difference between a man of wealth and a man of science. Both are rich no doubt. The man of wealth be- queathes his treasures to his children or to those who are his next of kin, unless he be a person like Andrew Carnegie, or, coming nearer to our own country, philanthropists like Premchand Roychand or Taraknath Palit or Rash Behari Ghosh, who gave away almost everything they had for the advancement of learning and for the progress of science. But the man of science bequeathes his achieve- ments, not to one particular person, but to all generations that come after him and to the world at large. Everyman can partake of what a Newton, a Faraday, a _ Berzelius, a Priestley or a Lavoisier has left behind. In a general sense a man of science is the common property of mankind at large; he transcends all arbitrary jurisdictions and narrow political boundaries of time and place. We have, therefore, to remember how much we owe to the pioneers of science, being partners and co-sharers of their legacy. Just as the Americans celebrate the day on which they declared independence (the 4th of July), just as the Swiss take pride in remembering the exploits of William Tell, so should it be our proud privilege to pause awhile now and then and pay reverent homage to the
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