THE NEW EARTH 



ments alongside of which to determine the 

 value of his creations. It is not more difficult 

 to tell how much he has added and will add to 

 the world as his fruits progress, from a com- 

 mercial and practical point of view, than to 

 tell how much he has added to the world's 

 store of beauty and delight. 



Great as have been his achievements, both as 

 a man of the practical and as a man of science, 

 enormous as must be the sum of his benefits 

 to the world, they are still less than that 

 which shines out of his life with a steady, 

 splendid glow in the midst of this day of crass 

 indifference on the part of many to the rights 

 of others — the light of an absolute unselfishness. 

 It is not a light which is, after all, though pow- 

 erful, of chief value to show the way to him ; it 

 is, rather, the one which goes out in every direc- 

 tion wherever he has sent a plant or a seed, 

 forever making new centers of light for others. 

 The world has much to learn of Luther Bur- 

 bank along the path of knowledge and in the 

 realm of science : it has more to learn from the 

 example of the man himself. 



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