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pigmy beside an elephant, yet he is much further ad- 

 vanced. He can perform greater feats by the exercise 

 of his intelligence than an elephant can manage by 

 brute strength. The humbly proportioned Daisy can 

 succeed where a mammoth Sequoia would be utterly at 

 a loss. 



We have now arrived at the end of our rapid review 

 of the gamut of plant-life. We have seen plant-life in 

 its simplest forms, and traced it to its highest expres- 

 sion. To some extent we have observed the stages of 

 progress, but we have not explained the greatest of all 

 phenomena Life itself. To do so, we should have to 

 enter the realm of metaphysics, and indulge in a dis- 

 cussion which has no rightful place in a volume such 

 as this. 



