FOREWORD xiii 
table vegetables. The fact that in studying plants 
he has been studying living organisms, beings 
which think and feel, which have souls and wor- 
ship, fellow members of a great universe, has never 
entered his thought. The appalling thing in this 
regarding of plants as mere things is not the ap- 
parent slight to the plant, but the real loss to the 
student in his lack of appreciation of the wonder 
and beauty around him. 
It is therefore with the earnest hope that in this 
work the young student, the future man or woman, 
as well as the adult, may find a revelation of the 
living things about him, that I have prepared THE 
Human Swe or Piants. 
If in its entertainment it encourages a little 
greater interest in the other species of life, a little 
greater love for the plant species, one of the most 
beautiful of all forms of life, and a little greater 
respect for the Divine Source of all Life, it will 
have accomplished its purpose. 
Royau Drxon. 
New Yorg, May, 1914. 
