UNDER THE APPLE-TREES 
do not plant our forests or sow our seed or trim our 
trees, or drain our land, as Nature does; we abbrevi- 
ate, and select, and take short cuts, and do in a sea- 
son what Nature takes years to accomplish. Her 
forests get planted, her trees get trimmed, her canals 
get dug, but think how modern business methods 
would improve her processes. We see what we call 
intelligence in organic nature, — adaptation, selec- 
tion, the use of means to an end, — but it is all a 
kind of blind, groping, experimenting intelligence, 
like that of man in a new and strange field, when he 
feels his way, tries and tries again, and reaches his 
end after many delays and failures. 
If our minds only knew all that our bodies know, 
or knew how our bodies come to know the things 
they seem to know, then we should have the secret 
of organization, of inheritance, of adaptation, and 
of many other things. The body knows how to 
build itself up from single cells, how to preserve its 
form, how to run itself, how to repair and reproduce 
itself, and many other things. But it does not know 
how to combat certain enemies that attack it as well 
as we know how. We can aid it in many of its func- 
tions, and relieve it in many of its obstructions. 
What I know, and what my body knows, are two 
different things. We can separate the mind from 
the body in this way, and we can and do separate 
man from physical nature in the same way, but the 
truth is that the mind and the body are one, and 
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