NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
possible, the work is delegated; still, very much 
of it cannot be given over to other hands but 
must be under the immediate eye of the one 
who has conceived the plan, who alone knows 
how it should be developed, who alone can tell 
the proper moment for action should a 
radical change at any time appear necessary. 
When the evening comes, it is a worn and 
tired figure that curls up upon a low couch in 
his little living-room,—tired physically no less 
than mentally, many a time worn to the very 
verge of exhaustion. An hour or so he lies 
silently resting, not asleep, for his mind is 
eternally turning upon the work before him, 
but relaxing in so far as possible. Even now 
he is not left to himself; for the messenger 
boy may still reach him; special-delivery 
letters come by night as well as day; tele- 
grams have no heart. 
But by nine o'clock, if all is well, he is in 
bed—the day is over. Another one will not 
be long delayed, fuller, it may be, of care. Yet 
all the days in this man’s life are rich in the 
splendid consciousness of duty done, glorified 
by the joy of having helped the great primal 
forces of Nature to help mankind. 
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