HIS PLACE IN THE WORLD 
plant-life than Nature, unaided, could have 
done in a millenium,— more, indeed, than 
Nature, unaided, would ever have accom- 
plished. 
3. His direct influence upon the physical 
character of the world is no less significant 
than his influence upon his contemporaries. 
4. He is not only a great power in the 
physical manipulation of Nature, but he is 
a deep and accurate thinker and a man of 
indisputable scientific attainments. 
I cannot better conclude this necessarily 
imperfect showing than by the following by 
David Starr Jordan, president of Leland 
Stanford University, in answer to a request 
as to the place of Luther Burbank in the 
world: 
“It seems to me that Mr. Burbank, while 
primarily an artist, is, in his general attitude, 
essentially a man of science. Academic he 
doubtless is not, but the qualities we call 
scientific are not necessarily bred in the 
academy. Science is human experience tested 
and set in order. Within the range of 
molding plants, Mr. Burbank has read care- 
fully, and thought carefully, maturing his 
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