HIS PLACE IN THE WORLD 



plant -life than Nature, unaided, could have 

 done in a millenium, — more, indeed, than 

 Nature, unaided, would ever have accom- 

 plished. 



3. His direct influence upon the physical 

 character of the world is no less significant 

 than his influence upon his contemporaries. 



4. He is not only a great power in the 

 physical manipulation of Nature, but he is 

 a deep and accurate thinker and a man of 

 indisputable scientific attainments. 



I cannot better conclude this necessarily 

 imperfect showing than by the following by 

 David Starr Jordan, president of Leland 

 Stanford University, in answer to a request 

 as to the place of Luther Burbank in the 

 world : 



" It seems to me that Mr. Burbank, while 

 primarily an artist, is, in his general attitude, 

 essentially a man of science. Academic he 

 doubtless is not, but the qualities we call 

 scientific are not necessarily bred in the 

 academy. Science is human experience tested 

 and set in order. Within the range of 

 molding plants, Mr. Burbank has read care- 

 fully, and thought carefully, maturing his 



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