LUTHER BURBANK 



of a large proportion of those who expounded the 

 subject in the early days in New England, nothing 

 good would remain. 



Of course the history of the spread of this new 

 doctrine duplicated the history of every other new 

 idea. For the most part, people of the elder gen- 

 eration could no more change their old views and 

 accept new ones than they could make over their 

 stature or the color of their eyes. 



But, on the other hand, we of the younger 

 generation were quick to see the logicality of the 

 new conception, and were not hampered in its 

 acceptance by any cherished beliefs of a contra- 

 dictory kind. 



Not, indeed, that we children for the most part 

 concerned ourselves greatly about the matter. We 

 went through our regular task of Bible reading 

 and church-going and learned our Sunday school 

 lessons, just as we performed other tasks that we 

 could not escape. But none the less were there 

 instilled into the very substructure of our minds 

 the essentials of the new manner of thinking, the 

 new attitude toward the world in which we live 

 and all its organic creatures. 



And when in later years we went out into the 

 world and came to choose our own paths and to 

 adopt mental and religious garbs of our own 

 choosing, the subconscious influence of the new 



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