208 LIVING PLANTS 



being, everyday existence, is an end in itself. 

 "Plants are born to live, not to die," says L. 

 H. Bailey- in his work on the survival of the 

 unlike, and the same is undoubtedly true of 

 animals and of man. 



If I have made good my argument, the in- 

 dividual has a right to its life, it has a right 

 to live, although under the present conditions 

 Right to life it must maintain its position and its life by 

 should be force. And if the individual has a right to its 



respected \{{q^ and if the purpose of that life is primarily 



to give enjoyment to the possessor, there is 

 after all a sacredness about life that makes it 

 wrong to destro3' it needlessly. Not onh' the 

 animal, but also the plant is entitled to con- 

 sideration. 



"Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold, 

 Not all AiJollo's Pythian treasv:res hold, 

 Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, 

 Can bribe the poor possession of a da3^" 



