ON THE QUICK GROWING WALNUT 



less ancient in their origin. There were some that 

 made their way into the germ plasm of the an- 

 cestors of the plant so recently as half a million 

 years ago. There are others that are more par- 

 venus of perhaps ten thousand years. And there 

 are yet others that are upstarts of literal yesterday. 



Each one of these hereditary factors is striving 

 for recognition and endeavoring to make tangibly 

 manifest the condition or quality or form or con- 

 stitution of tissue that it specifically represents. 



And, according to the view just presented, the 

 thousand factors that make up any given complex 

 stand in such sequential relation to each other that 

 each successive one controls in a measure its 

 predecessor in point of time, and is controlled by 

 its successor. The very newest factor that has been 

 admitted to the coalition has a more powerful 

 influence than any other single member of the 

 coalition. 



But meantime this most powerful individual is 

 after all only one among a thousand. 



In a company of a thousand men, some one 

 man is stronger than any other. But this strongest 

 individual would be infinitesimally week in com- 

 parison with the combined strength of the 

 other 999. 



This is the important thing to bear in mind. 

 The newest member in each of the thousand or so 



[233] 



