LUTHER BURBANK 



We should see, no doubt, as the picture began 

 to move, a tiny living being, a simple cell, the 

 chemical product, perhaps, of salty water — so 

 small that 900 of them would have to be assembled 

 together to make a speck big enough for our 

 human eyes to see. 



As snapshot succeeded snapshot we should 

 see that two of these microscopic simple cells 

 in some way or other formed a partnership — 

 possibly finding it easier to fight the elements of 

 destruction in alliance than alone. 



We should see, beyond doubt, that these 

 partnerships joined other partnerships, and as 

 partnership joined partnership, and group joined 

 group, these amalgamations began to have an 

 object beyond mere defense — that they began to 

 organize for their own improvement, comfort, well 

 being, or whatever was their guiding object. 



We should see that, whereas each simple cell 

 had within it all of the powers necessary to move 

 about and live its life in its own crude way, 5'^et 

 with the amalgamation of the cells there came 

 organization, development, improvement. 



Some of the cells in each amalgamation, let us 

 say, specialized on seeing, some on locomotion, 

 some on digestion. 



Thus, while each simple cell had all of these 

 powers in a limited way, yet the new creature, 



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