LUTHER BURBANK 
We should see, no doubt, as the picture began 
to move, a tiny living being, a simple cell, the 
chemical product, perhaps, of salty water—so 
small that 900 of them would have to be assembled 
together to make a speck big enough for our 
human eyes to see. 
As snapshot succeeded snapshot we should 
see that two of these microscopic simple cells 
in some way or other formed a partnership— 
possibly finding it easier to fight the elements of 
destruction in alliance than alone. 
We should see, beyond doubt, that these 
partnerships joined other partnerships, and as 
partnership joined partnership, and group joined 
group, these amalgamations began to have an 
object beyond mere defense—that they began to 
organize for their own improvement, comfort, well 
being, or whatever was their guiding object. 
We should see that, whereas each simple cell 
had within it all of the powers necessary to move 
about and live its life in its own crude way, yet 
with the amalgamation of the cells there came 
organization, development, improvement. 
Some of the cells in each amalgamation, let us 
say, specialized on seeing, some on locomotion, 
some on digestion. 
Thus, while each simple cell had all of these 
powers in a limited way, yet the new creature, 
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