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 fine 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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