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the fact that *Mike produces like" or nearly alike. Burbank 

 is a creator of species. So is any man who applies these 

 elements to animal or plant life. To call him a ''wizard," as 

 some men and some magazines do, is to injure him in reputa- 

 tion and to befog his great services with a trivial epithet. 



Burbank' s ways are Nature' s ways, for Burbank differs from 

 other men in this, that his whole life is given to the study of 

 how Nature does things. His greatest service to science is to 

 show what can be achieved through deeper knowledge of things 

 as they are. He has shown the infinite variety of Nature as 

 exhibited in the varying life and ways of the millions of kinds 

 of living things. He has shown the unity of Nature in again 

 demonstrating the final essential simplicity of creative processes. 

 He has put into practical utility the teachings of his greatest 

 master, Darwin, and he has enriched the world with thousands 

 of fruits and flowers, useful and delightful, which but for him 

 would have existed only among the conceivable possibilities of 

 creation. He works in his own way with the tools he needs and 

 the methods he can use. He has helped mankind by increasing 

 enormously the economic values plant life. He has helped even 

 more our science and our philosophy by his practical and success- 

 ful test of biologic theories. Among the men of science of cen- 

 tury that is, Burbank is assured of a high and honored place, not 

 as a ''wizard" or as a clever operator, but as a man of broad 

 views, exact knowledge, and noble and ennobling character. 



D. S. J. 



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