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a broader opportunity, Burbank could have 
done a greater variety of things and touched 
life at more points; but, at the same time, 
he would have lost something of his simple 
intensity and fine delicacy of touch,—things 
which the schools do not always give and 
which too much contact with men sometimes 
takes away. 
“Great men are usually men of simple, 
direct sincerity of character. These marks 
are found in Burbank. As sweet, straight- 
forward, and as unspoiled as a child, always 
interested in the phenomena of Nature, and 
never seeking fame or money or anything 
else for himself. If his place is outside the 
temple of science, there are not many of 
the rest of us who will be found fit to enter.” 
All that Luther Burbank has received,— 
observation of the keenest type, unsurpassed 
intuition, knowledge, understanding, scientific 
attainment, in a word, genius of the highest 
order for the interpretation of the work to 
which he has devoted his life-—he has accepted 
as a sacred trust, not to be dissipated but 
to be administered with unswerving fidelity 
to the common interests of mankind. 
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