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and between man and the plant ; and the words addressed by 

 Wordsworth to the meek and long-suffering daisy : 



Methinks that there abides in thee 



Some concord with humanity 



contain not only a profound biological and bio-moral truth, but 

 quite possibly also an ampler cosmic truth, relating to the 

 essential interlinking of life, both organic and inorganic, in 

 cosmic evolution. 



