PIECING THE FRAGMENTS 



OF A 

 MOTION PICTURE FILM 



WE STOP TO TAKE 

 A BACKWARD GLANCE 



WHEN you speak of environment as an 

 active influence," Mr. Burbank was 

 asked, "do you mean the soil and the 

 rainfall and the climate?" 



"Yes," was the reply. "I mean those; but 

 not only those; I mean, too, such elements of 



environment as the Union Pacific Railroad. 



***** 



"I will explain," Mr. Burbank continued. 



"Go out into the woods, almost anywhere in 

 the United States, and hunt up a wild plum tree, 

 and you will find that it bears a poor little fruit 

 with a great big stone. 



"You see, the only purpose which the wild plum 

 has in surrounding its seed with a fruit is to 

 attract the animals so that they may carry it away 

 from the foot of the parent tree and plant it in 



[VOLUME I CHAPTER IX] 



