200 THE BIOC08MOB PARTICULARIZED. 



limitations, the barrier-bursting Titanic 

 spirit which under a favoring environment 

 will break forth in a kind of volcanic up- 

 heaval. So we have to note the Negative in 

 the Psyche of the Plant, where we hardly ex- 

 pected to find it so strongly manifesting it- 

 self. Still therein it is a true child of Nature 

 who springs of the deepest dualism of the 

 Universe itself. 



Viewed from another side, it may be seen 

 that the Plant, even the humblest specimen, 

 has in itself the sleeping potentiality of all 

 vegetal species, genera, families yea, of the 

 entire vegetal kingdom. That little Primrose 

 started to reproduce not merely some new 

 specific Forms of itself, but an entirely new 

 Plant-world, which must have lain ideally in 

 it, and have impelled it toward realization. 

 Yet, Time was needed, many geologic ages in 

 fact. But the Dutch botanist (DeVries) 

 came along just in its earliest stage, when it 

 had only taken its first step by reproducing 

 some fresh species. These he picked up, see- 

 ing his opportunity, and turned back into the 

 regular reproduction of like individuals by 

 cultivation. Thus the floral revolution was 

 literally nipped in the bud, and the rebel 

 brought back into the pre-established order 

 of garden life. 



So much lies implicitly in the Formative 



