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The Training of the Human Plant 
&y LUTHER BURBANK 
Dedicated to the Sixteen Million Public School Children of America 
and to the Untold Millions Under Other Skies 
A book, primarily, for every parent and every teacher, but, also, 
A book to be read by every thinking man and woman. 
It is a prophecy of the finest race the world has ever known. 
It is a startling presentation of the possibilities of the ideal in character. 
It is a plea for an heredity, environment, and training which shall realize here 
and now the ideal. 
LUTHER BURBANK claims: 
By placing ourselves in harmony and co-operation with the main high poten- 
tial lines of human progress and welfare we receive the benefit of strong magnetic 
induction currents. 
We are now standing upon the threshold of new methods and new discoveries 
which shall give us imperial dominion. 
"Luther Burbank is unquestionably the greatest student of life and philosophy 
of living things, in America if not in the world." — S. H. Comings, Corresponding 
Secretary American League of Industrial Education. 
"Well worth reading by all parents." — Friends' Intelligencer. 
"It should have a place in every normal school library and in that of every 
parent and all interested in the progress of humanity." — Kindergarten Review. 
"During the course of many years of investigation into the plant life of the 
world, creating new forms, modifying old ones, adapting others to new condi- 
tions, and blending still others, I have constantly been impressed with the simi- 
larity between the organization and development of plant and human life," is 
Luther Burbank's introduction to his discussion of "The Training of the Human 
Plant." 
Mr. Burbank believes, further, that upon a wisely directed crossing of species 
rests the hope of all progress, and that in the United States today exists the 
grandest opportunity ever presented of developing the finest race the world has 
ever known. 
Out of the richness of his years of experience and investigation, Mr. Burbank 
urges an ideal training looking toward an ideal race. He shows that we are 
more crossed than any other nation in the history of the world, and that we 
meet the same results that are always seen in a much-crossed race of plants; 
if we follow the teaching of Nature, we may produce the finest race ever known. 
He demands for the child of the race — most sensitive of living things — first 
and foremost an heredity and environment of love; differentiation in training, 
sunshine, good air, and nourishing food. He condemns the marriage of the 
physically unfit, and discusses at length heredity, predestination, training, growth, 
environment, and character. The fundamental principles of education, Mr. Bur- 
bank declares, should be the subject of earnest scientific investigation including 
all the causes which tend TO PRODUCE MEN AND WOMEN WITH SANE, WELL- 
BALANCED CHARACTERS. 
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