THE NEW EARTH 



study of the New Earth, the tiller of the soil 

 may come into closer relationship with nature 

 than ever before since the creation of the world. 

 Not only may he know more of the secrets of 

 the earth and their bearing upon his life and 

 work, but he can, at the same time, measurably 

 add to his own wealth by taking note of what 

 these discoveries suggest. 



Today he may know that the plant which 

 he rears is not merely a blade of grass, or a 

 stalk of wheat, or a succulent vegetable, or a 

 protecting tree, but that it is an intricate and 

 subtle organism, not so highly constituted nor 

 so diverse in its powers as his own, but still 

 possessed of a most delicately established in- 

 dividuality. He may look at a wheat plant, for 

 example, and, seeing upon it certain yellowish 

 spots, know that it is lacking in lime and that 

 lime must be fed to it. If he follows the ex- 

 periments of some of the scientific men, and 

 keeps his pigeons on food that is scant in 

 mineral matter, he will see them die on his 

 hands ; while if he feeds his dog on meat long 

 macerated in water, so that the mineral por- 

 tions are leached out, it is more than probable 

 he will find the animal some morning rapidly 



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