﻿Unity 



UNIVERSALITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND PAIN' 



"It is my faith that every flower that blows 

 Enjoys the air it breathes!" 



Wordsworth. 



It is the glory of modern science to have 

 shown that the phenomena of the universe are 

 capable of being grouped into classes and sub- 

 classes, and that through all the ramifications 

 runs an essential nexus, or genetic association. 

 In the organic world the development of ^ nature 

 plants and animals has been shown to be 

 governed by similar laws for both, and their 

 special ways of maintaining the funderment- 

 al characteristics of their existence is being 

 found more and more to be based upon like 

 properties. 



In the following pages the writer hopes to 

 present a generalization that throws a some- 

 what different light upon the life of plants 



*Rcad before the Parlor Club, an organization devoted to 

 literary and scientific culture; Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 20, 1896. 



