NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



He would welcome, with the eagerness 

 of any lover of truth, any confirmation of 

 law, for his whole life is pledged to law. 

 He had no ulterior purpose in disproving 

 the Mendelian laws : in point of fact, he 

 had disproved them over and over again 

 years before he knew they existed. 



Mr. Burbank, in another instance, has 

 brought to light the absurdity of reasoning 

 from inadequate data. Leading scientists 

 have maintained, and their followers have 

 added the weight of their evidence, that 

 "acquired characteristics are never trans- 

 mitted." In the limitless fields of operation 

 before him, Mr. Burbank has not only 

 disproven this over and over again, but 

 has established the, opposite, that acquired 

 characteristics are the only ones that are 

 transmitted. 



Another theory, now widely accepted by 

 scientific men, the theory of mutation, or 

 saltation, new forms of life being produced 

 by springing from the parents by a sudden 

 leap or bound, evolution thus going on by 

 rare and sudden leaps, appears to have been 

 overthrown by Mr. Burbank. Instead of 



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