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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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