LUTHER BURBANK 



there is no forward motion — that there has been 

 no evolution — tliat there will be none. 



The plant student, above all others, has the 

 greatest facilities at his hand for observing not 

 only the details of the picture which is now on the 

 screen — but for gaining glimpses — fragmentary 

 glimpses — of pictures which have preceded — of 

 piecing these together — and of realizing that all 

 that we have and are and will be must be a part 

 of this slow, sure, forward-moving change that 

 unfailingly traces itself back to the little simple 

 salt-water cell. 



As we go further and further into the work 

 we shall begin to see the film fragments which to 

 workers in other lines are obscured, unnoticed, 

 unknown. 



We shall be able to observe details of the 

 process — carried home to us with undeniable 

 conviction — indisputable to any man who believes 

 what he actually sees — which will give us a 

 realistic view of the whole motion picture which 

 to the world at large has always been denied. 



We shall find that, dealing, thus, with Nature's 

 forces at first hand, our work will inspire an 

 interest bej^ond even the interest of creating new 

 forms of life. 



And, as our work unfolds, the side lights which 

 we shall see will clear up many or most of the 



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