ON THE QUICK GROWING WALNUT 
less ancient in their origin. There were some that 
made their way into the germ plasm of the an- 
cestors of the plant so recently as half a million 
years ago. There are others that are more par- 
venus of perhaps ten thousand years. And there 
are yet others that are upstarts of literal yesterday. 
Each one of these hereditary factors is striving 
for recognition and endeavoring to make tangibly 
manifest the condition or quality or form or con- 
stitution of tissue that it specifically represents. 
And, according to the view just presented, the 
thousand factors that make up any given complex 
stand in such sequential relation to each other that 
each successive one controls in a measure its 
predecessor in point of time, and is controlled by 
its successor. The very newest factor that has been 
admitted to the coalition has a more powerful 
influence than any other single member of the 
coalition. 
But meantime this most powerful individual is 
after all only one among a thousand. 
In a company of a thousand men, some one 
man is stronger than any other. But this strongest 
individual would be infinitesimally week in com- 
parison with the combined strength of the 
other 999. 
This is the important thing to bear in mind. 
The newest member in each of the thousand or so 
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