Complimentary Banquet to Luther Burbank 



another intellectuality, in still another moral force. Nature 

 alone could do this. The work of man's head and hand 

 has not yet been summoned to prescribe for the development 

 of a race. A preconceived and mapped-out crossing of bloods 

 has found no place in the making of peoples and nations. But 

 when nature has already done its duty and the crossing leaves 

 a product which in the rough displays the best human at- 

 tributes, all that is left to be done falls to selective environ- 

 ment. 



"Man has by no means reached the ultimate. The fit- 

 test has not yet survived. In the process of elimination the 

 weaker must fall, but the battle has changed its base from 

 brute force to mental integrity. We now have what are 

 popularly known as five senses, but there are men of strong 

 minds whose reasoning has rarely been at fault and who are 

 coldly scientific in their methods, who attest to the possibility 

 of yet developing a sixth sense. Who is he that can say man 

 will not develop new senses as evolution advances? Psychol- 

 ogy is now studied in the public schools throughout the coun- 

 try, and that study will lead to a greater knowledge of these 

 subjects. The man of the future age will prove a somewhat 

 different order of being from that of the present. He will 

 look upon us as we to-day look upon our ancestors. 



"Statistics show many things to make us pause, but after 

 all the proper point of view is that of the optimist. The 

 time will come when insanity will be reduced, suicides and 

 murders will be fewer and man will become a being of fewer 

 mental troubles and bodily ills. Wherever you have a 

 nation in which there is no variation there is comparatively 

 little insanity or crime, or exalted morality or genius. Here 

 in America, where the variation is greatest, statistics show a 

 greater percentage of all these variations. 



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