4 COME INTO THE GARDEN 



For what, after all, was that dawn? Where 

 did it break? And what were the first faint 

 streaks in the sky? That man's first differ- 

 entiation from the animal came with the 

 fashioning of tools is sufficiently apparent not 

 to be open to argument, of course; but neither 

 this nor his subsequent rude architecture, nor 

 even the discovery and use of fire can be 

 said to have carried him very far forward on 

 the long road he has traveled, since savages 

 to-day employ as much. No, it was none of 

 these. 



It was with the first deliberate planting of a 

 seed and cultivation of a plant that the darkness 

 of the racial night began really to lift. And it is 

 to the degree of his loyalty to this first great 

 science-art that man is a success or failure in the 

 world to-day! 



Perhaps this seems the usual exaggeration of 

 the devotee; but need I do more than point out 

 the complete dependence of all creation upon a 

 rehable and regular food supply, to prove my 

 case? We have had too recent example of world 

 food shortage to forget altogether how real a 

 menace to every human being individually such 

 shortage may become within an alarmingly 

 short space of time, once production is aban- 

 doned. Wherefore we have writ large before us 



