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evolution in Leland Stanford University; ne 
has been granted a subvention of a hundred 
thousand dollars by the Carnegie Institution. 
He has not attempted to fathom all the 
depths that Nature holds, but he has so 
sounded those depths he has selected for 
investigation, and so set his life to the 
advancement of the world, that his place 
must not only be a noble one today, but a 
still more commanding one tomorrow. It is 
not too much to say that volumes could 
be prepared from the newspaper references 
to Mr. Burbank made in the past year or two. 
The following quotation from a New Jersey 
newspaper, the “News,” of Newark, may be 
taken as a fair summing up of the more 
serious popular estimates of his life and 
achievements : 
“Luther Burbank,— until recently an 
unknown name,—has bestowed upon the 
world a greater increment of values, in things 
done and things inevitable, which are for 
the permanent betterment of civilization, than 
any score of celebrities in this decade or in 
any previous decade or century, when the 
fact is submitted to ultimate analysis. He 
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