﻿LIVING PLANTS 



being, everyday existence, is an end in itself. 

 "Plants are born to live, not to die," says L. 

 H. Bailey in his work on the survival of the 

 unlike, and the same is undoubtedly true of 

 animals and of man. 



If I have made good my argument, the in- 

 dividual has a right to its life, it has a right 

 to live, although under the present conditions 

 Right to life it must maintain its position and its life by 

 should be force. And if the individual has a right to its 



respected \\{q^ and if the purpose of that life is primarily 



to give enjoyment to the possessor, there is 

 after all a sacredness about life that makes it 

 wrong to destroy it needlessly. Not only the 

 animal, but also the plant is entitled to con- 

 sideration. 



"Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold. 

 Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, 

 Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, 

 Can l)ril)e the poor possession of a day." 



