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as scientists we thought, as leisure class we 

 now see; and essentially urban at that. For 

 while in our town herbaria we distinguish 

 grasses and orchids essentially by their post- 

 mortem structure, the gardener is the fuller 

 scientist, the true physiologist, knowing their 

 differences as lives; the grass so vegetative 

 that cattle and farm and city all live upon 

 its surplus, the orchids so splendidly floral that 

 we may easily spend upon their culture more 

 than our grass-field can earn. 



If this rustic point of view be seized, and 

 the urban and mechanical one correspondingly 

 subordinated, the present theory will work 

 itself out just as fully and freshly as did the 

 selectionist game of thought: if not, it 

 remains useless to argue for it. The eye sees 

 only what it brings the means of seeing. 



RE-INTERPRETATION OF THE ANIMAL KING- 

 DOM. Instead then of opening new botanical 

 sections, of which each would really require 

 a chapter, sometimes a whole volume, now 

 dealing with the interpretations of flowers 

 and of fruits, and again with the great pecu- 

 liarities of habit evergreens, thorny plants, 

 climbers and so on, let us rather ask: Can 

 any such physiological interpretations be 

 applied to a survey of the animal kingdom ? 

 Its problems are obviously far more intricate 



