NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



them of their strangeness ; while he sees deeper 

 into, and more broadly fortifies himself with, 

 the immutable facts of heredity as it has ap- 

 peared to him ; while he goes still closer and 

 closer into the life of the plants, measuring, 

 defining, analyzing, he has, at the same time, 

 neglected no sign nor cast aside any proof of 

 the great fact of Evolution, nor has he hesi- 

 tated to set apart and apply with his own 

 hand means which Nature has so long made 

 use of in her great scheme of the evolution of 

 the plant, the human being, the universe. 



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