The original import of the word "Plant evolution"–to unfold or to unroll, as a flower is unfolded–is too restricted, because, evolution is far more than the unfolding of something that already exists, as the germ develops and unfolds in the beauty of a rose; evolution is the incessant appearance of new qualities, new characters, new powers, new beauties, for which there is no antecedent in experience or no evident promise in the germ itself. The revelation of creation by plant evolution which comes to us through science widens and exalts our outlook on life and our religious faith, and this book have been assembled in the hope that they may lead to a more general understanding of nature and nature’s way.
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