CHAPTER X 
RELIGION IN THE PLANT WORLD 
“Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth.” 
—Byron 
N a sense, the entire plant world is a beauti- 
ful and expressive worship of a bountiful 
and beneficent Creator. No creed which does 
not deny God will fail to see the silent but rev- 
erent adoration exhibited by His handiwork. 
Every tree which raises its brave crest toward 
the heavens, every flower which greets the 
warming sunlight with a smile, is a testimony to 
the omnipotence of divine law. Fully explain 
the wonders of a single blade of Grass, and you 
have solved the mysteries which underlie the 
universe. 
Primitive peoples, who are always closely at- 
tuned to natural influences, early discerned the 
divine thread which runs through all plantdom. 
In their incessant search for God, they did not 
overlook His manifestations in the plants and 
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