NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



attributes through centuries of life, while, at 

 the same time, as steadily rejecting other 

 attributes ; just as successive generations of a 

 given family gather and reject certain family 

 traits? How much of it was heredity, how 

 much of it environment, how much a direct 

 mingling of these two, how much, if any, 

 could be traced to neither? 



And then the other word, Why? Why 

 was all this done, and why was it all so 

 persistently veiled from human eyes? 



In the midst of the exacting toil as he 

 worked among his plants, this constant study 

 of Nature broadened his mind. Year by year 

 his sight became more refined, his knowledge 

 deeper. He read much upon the subject, 

 particularly Darwin. He made the most 

 careful study of the conclusions reached by 

 other men who had sought for the secrets 

 of Nature's life, and how they came to these 

 conclusions. Sometimes noting that certain 

 improbable conclusions had been reached 

 from certain premises, he set to work to 

 discover the soundness of the premises, only 

 to find that they were unsafe to trust. He 

 early discovered, also, that some of the men 



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