Personality of plants

PERSONALITY OF PLANTS
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animals and plants against wanton destruction.
Is not the equality of the three kingdoms of life
hinted at in the following passage from Jonah?
"Thou hast had pity on the Gourd, for the
which thou hast not laboured, neither madest
it grow; which came up in a night, and per-
ished in a night."
"And I shall not spare Nineveh, that great
city, wherein are more than six score thousand
persons that cannot discern between their right
hand and their left hand and also much cattle."
Some marvelous experiments carried on by Sir
Jaghadish Chaundra Bose in Calcutta, India,
offer interesting light on the higher life of
plants. By exceptionally delicate and ingenious
instruments, Sir Jaghadish has been able to
measure the plant movements associated with
growth, shock and response to stimuli in gen-
eral. He has come to the conclusion that plants
not only have a conscious intelligence, but have
their good and bad days, their moods, their
whims. He believes they react to slight or
pleasurable stimuli by general expansion*
Violent stimuli cause pain and contraction. A
plant struck a blow quivers and shakes in
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