Complimentary Banquet to Luther Burbank 



neighbor, we must feel something of the divine enthusiasm 

 and deep penetration of Emerson when he declared: "Ah, rich 

 and various man ! Thou palace of sight and sound, carrying 

 in thy senses the morning and the night and the unfathomable 

 galaxy; in thy brain the geometry of the City of God; in 

 thy heart the power of love and the realms of right and 

 wrong." 



The world will always know and do suitable honor to 

 the great achievements of Mr. Burbank. Even now, no other 

 name in the chosen field of his activity stands higher upon the 

 roll of fame. 



It is pleasing to reflect that the distinction which has come 

 to him unsought has not disturbed the splendid equipoise of 

 his nature. The current of his life flows on with the same 

 serenity, purity and sweetness that characterized his youth 

 and early manhood. 



In the zenith of his power and celebrity, he is still the 

 same modest, earnest, self-sacrificing, toiling and enthusiastic 

 lover of his kind, content to do what he can to brighten and 

 beautify the pathway of life, and to bring more of the sun- 

 shine of comfort and happiness into the cottages of the poor 

 as well as the palaces of the rich. 



He has done and is doing his work well. He believes 

 with Chapin that 4< man was sent into the world to be a 

 growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out 

 around him to be seized and conquered." His is the spirit 

 of all the great army of real men that achieve the welfare 

 of the world. 



