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I v111 | systems is said to be past, a theory that will suffice to enable poor humanity to feel confident of its own significance in a cosmic scheme. Professor K. P. Vidyaratna has elaborated with modern aids in his “Study on Life” a theory that has stood the test of long years, and gives man a place in that sun which means to him activity, health, indeed life itself. With the dutifulness characteristic of a pandit he seeks to find in the cosmogonies of the sages anticipations of the researches of today, and the effort is usually interesting. - Sd/- A. H. Harley. Zorrucosal, Islamia College. TELEPHONE PARK, 711. P. 45 New Park Street, Prof. S. C. Mahalanobis. CAI.CUTTA. I have read with great pleasure and admiration the articles written by esteemed friend Pandit Krishnapada Vidyaratna, on the ever fascinating theme of the origin of life. They possess great elegance and dignity of style and are presented with persuasive clarity. The riddle of life has puzzled the philosopher and scientists of all ages, and endless theories regarding the derivation of life upon the earth have been propounded. It is now accepted by all natural sciences that the carth, in its evolution, has passed through a fiery condition like the sun from which it originated. Starting with this idea of the origin of the earth from the sun, the learned. Pandit develops a theory tracing the origin of life also to the same source. Modern