PERSONALITY OF PLANTS 
the least resistance to the divine principle and 
so receives a generous share. The plants receive 
lesser amounts, but really belong to the same 
intellectual order. They exhibit the same ideas, 
the same hopes, the same logic and undergo the 
same trials in a lesser degree than their more 
educated brothers. The plants and man both 
grope, hesitate and correct themselves in their 
labourious evolutionary development. 
Of course, this theory is only a conjecture, 
but is very appealing and much more modest 
than the traditional attitude which assumes that 
man is a miraculous and marvelously endowed 
being fallen from another world and therefore 
lacking any definite ties with the rest of ter- 
restrial life. 
If then we believe that a vital spiritual force 
dwells within every plant, what becomes of it 
after the death of its enclosing walls? Each 
cell of a tree in effect dies many times each 
season. Continual waste and renovation bring 
periodic transformation of cell structure. The 
abode is changed but not the inhabitant. ‘There 
must be an animating, non-physical force which 
carries on the cycle. If it is superior to the 
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