NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
event. One records, the other creates; one 
is the perfection of mechanism, the other 
is the incarnation of truth; one is purely 
and everlastingly material, the other is as 
everlastingly spiritual. 
The average so-called scientific man, the 
one who has made the course of the uni- 
versity with distinction, but who puts his 
knowledge to no higher purpose than to record 
certain facts which he accumulates and tries 
to set in logical sequence beyond certain 
other facts, is an important man in the 
construction of the framework of science, 
but, slightly to change the figure for con- 
sistency’s sake, he is the photographer, the 
recorder, while Mr. Burbank and every other 
man along down the long line of noble 
descent, the clans of Darwin and Spencer, 
and Huxley and Tyndall,—is the painter, 
the creator. 
Reference has been made to Mr. Burbank’s 
attitude toward modern education. It should 
not be thought that, because he has not had 
a university training, therefore he is inimical 
to such training. It is not the training in 
itself that he antagonizes or deplores, but 
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