Consciousness tn Plants. 343 
must be placed under this category, can never be destroyed. 
I repeat the question. What has become of it? Either it 
exists in the plant ina dormant condition, awaiting opportuni- 
ties to call it into existence, or it has returned to the great 
Source of all consciousness, whence each individual organ- 
ism, whether of plant or animal, obtained its gvantum. It 
still exists, but how or under what conditions, J cannot 
affirm, and isto plants what mind is to man and animals, con- 
trolling their actions when such are for their well-being and 
good, If mind persists in a future state, then consciousness, 
which may be considered as mind in plants, must also per- 
sist, for it is not at all likely that the Source of all conscious- 
ness, which we worship as God, the Creator of all things, 
could be unmindful of the least of His children. 
