Plants as inventors / by R.H. Francé.

  • Raoul Heinrich Francé
Date:
1923
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Credit: Plants as inventors / by R.H. Francé. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    millions of years, these forms have been perfecting themselves in the workshop of reality. Buffeted by hostile winds, threatened by countless enemies; in the turmoil of existence only those forms which satisfied most perfectly the object of their aim surrived. The others perished by the wayside. That is why the biotechnical, wherever it parallels man’s purposes, is an object lesson of the perfection of the in- strument which he must construct. POSTCRIPT. That the science which I have endeavoured to expound in this little book is but in its embryonic stage, none will more readily admit than I. Therefore, I have tried only to point out its most significant facts; to draw the reader's attention to the important role which it must play in our civili- zation. If from these few citations and commentaries the reader has gained sufficient interest to continue his investigations of the subject, I shall consider that my work has been successful.