A Story Outline of Evolution 



ticularly partial to certain kinds of insects. Experience has 

 taught them that they receive better returns in their cross 

 breeding from some insects than they do from others and as 

 a reward for the better service, they protect their honey cups 

 so as to give advantage to the favored class. The plants 

 that depend on the aid of insects for cross fertilization 

 develop the most beautiful flowers, the greatest amount of 

 nectar and the sweetest fragrance while the ones that depend 

 on the wind to bring about their cross fertilization, make no 

 effort to develop these unnecessary functions. 



According to the evolutionary plan, from the beginning 

 of life, it was ordained that there should be change and 

 growth and that each change should be for the better and 

 that the ultimate end should be perfection of the type in rela- 

 tion to the creative whole. Plant Intelligence In making 

 changes for the better and in adaptation to surroundings is 

 another Interesting demonstration of the cooperation of all 

 life in order to reach the ultimate end — perfection. It Is 

 not given to our finite minds to understand the cunning of 

 plant Intelligence nor the secret processes by which the mar- 

 velous changes are wrought. When we realize that the beau- 

 tiful and snow white water lily Is only a changed form of the 

 mud and slime from which it grows, and that the life germ 

 of each seed possesses all the plant's traditions of the past 

 and Its potential powers of future changes and growth to 

 meet the conditions of a changing environment, we must con- 

 clude that no other plan could have been devised to meet 

 these changing conditions except that of Evolution. 



It must not be understood that the lives of the plants 

 have been floating on "flowery beds of ease" for such Is not 



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