David Starr Jordan 



better end in human development than any type 

 of physical perfection. 



According to Burbank, the facts of plant life 

 demand a kinetic theory of evolution, a slight 

 change from Huxley's statement that 'matter is a 

 magazine of force/ to that of matter being force 

 alone. The time will come when the theory of 

 ions will be thrown aside and no line left between 

 force and matter. We can not get the right per- 

 spective in science unless we go beyond our senses. 

 A dead material universe moved by outside forces 

 is in itself highly improbable, but a universe of 

 force alone is probable, but requires great effort to 

 make it conceivable, because we must conceive 

 it in the terms of our sense experience." 



Whether we accept this or not, whether or 

 not indeed we can conceive what it means, this 

 view of life, which Burbank shares with many 

 other philosophers, opens to us many new vistas 

 of thought, and what means more for the progress 

 of knowledge, it suggests to us many new avenues 

 of experimentation. 



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