Before concluding the lecturer dwelt on the fact that all the varied and
complex responses of the animal had been foreshadowed in the plant. The
phenomena of life in the plant were thus not so remote as had been
hitherto supposed. The plant world, like the animal, was a thrill and a
throb with responsiveness to all the stimuli which fell upon it. Thus,
community throughout the great ocean of life, in all its different
forms, outweighed apparent dissimilarity. Diversity was swallowed up in
unity.
--_Amrita Bazar Patrika_, 20-1-1913.