THE STORY OF LUTHER 

 BURBANK 



Autobiography 



IN examining a new and unexplored country, 

 it is better to first take a broad, comprehen- 

 sive, general view of the landscape before 

 going into detail. Having secured our bearings 

 of the new territory, we are then equipped for a 

 more minute study of the nearer landscape. 



We are now discovering how mobile all life, 

 both static and dynamic, is under the deft might 

 of mind. Each atom lives; there is no gulf 

 between the quick and the dead and the elements 

 of the human brain are found alike in the pebbles 

 under foot and the blazing suns of space. All 

 are alike subject to the universal attractions and 

 repulsions of nature. True science and pure 

 religion are branches from the same root; both 

 are conscious and unconscious efforts of the 

 human ego to adapt itself to the conditions of 

 life. The foliage may well represent our daily 

 life. The flowers of idealism lend a halo of 



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