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vegetation of the earth, perchance was all in form of 

 simple cells. One-celled plants made up the gardens of 

 the primeval sea and terrestrial plants were none. But 

 the fact that those one-celled plants could yet divide 

 made possible a plant of two cells, of myriad uncounted 

 cells. Once the world of plants was reproduced by one- 

 celled spores alone; but the spore in its development 

 might not rest until it should form part and centre of 

 the seed. Nor less the seed could it be perfect until for 

 its own sowing, dispersal, provision had been made and 

 even nutrition for the young embryo that it bears. The 

 world of animals now appears, and once the relation of 

 the plant to the race of animals attains full recognition 

 and the leaf the sporophyl is changed again; rest 

 it may not until it breathe with odor, blaze in color, or 

 bewitch in endless shifting form become, in fact, a 

 flower. The flower may not cease along the strange path- 

 way of its creation until its intimacy with some single 

 creature a wasp in the case of the fig, a humming bird 

 or a moth in the case of the orchid or the yucca its in- 

 timacy becomes so absolute that neither can exist without 

 the other; we have symbiosis, and differentiation is lim- 

 ited by its own perfection. And so our science bids us 

 well perceive that if humanity has been the culmination 

 of all our mighty past, and no one questions that, that is 

 a fact, then the only possible outcome of our human fu- 

 ture is the perfection of man in those his peculiar charac- 

 teristics which are yet manifestly incomplete; and since 

 it is evident that for long ages differentiation has been 

 less concerned in the modifying of man's bodily struc- 

 ture, we are obliged to conclude that his future history 



