The Training Of The Human Plant,

Date:   6/3/2015 7:34:13 AM ( 9 y ago)

The Training Of The
Human Plant

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THE MINGLING OF RACES

DURING the course of many years of
investigation into the plant life
of the world, creating new forms, modi-
fying old ones, adapting others to new
conditions, and blending still others, I
have constantly been impressed with
the similarity between the organization
and development of plant and human
life. While I have never lost sight of
the principle of the survival of the fit-
test and all that it implies as an expla-
nation of the development and progress
of plant life, I have come to find in the
crossing of species and in selection,
wisely directed, a great and powerful
instrument for the transformation of
the vegetable kingdom along lines that
lead constantly upward. The crossing
of species is to me paramount. Upon
it, wisely directed and accompanied by
a rigid selection of the best and as rigid
an exclusion of the poorest, rests the
hope of all progress. The mere cross-
ing of species, unaccompanied by selec-
tion, wise supervision, intelligent care,
and the utmost patience, is not likely to
result in marked good, and may result
in vast harm. Unorganized effort is
often most vicious in its tendencies.


 

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