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Excerpt from The Story of the Plants
IN this little volume I have endeavoured to give a short and succinct account of the principal phenomena of plant life, in language suited to the comprehension of unscientific readers. As far as possible I have avoided technical terms and minute detail, while I have tried to adopt a more philosophical tone than is usually employed in elementary works. I have treated my readers, not as children, but as men and women, endowed with the average amount of intelligence and in sight, and anxious to obtain some sensible infor mation about the world of plants which exists all round them. Acting upon this basis, I have freely admitted the main results of the latest investiga tions, accepting throughout the evolutionary the ory, and making the study of plants a first intro duction to the great modern principles of heredity, variation, natural selection, and adaptation to the environment. Hence I have wasted compara tively little space on mere structural detail, and have dwelt as much as possible on those more in teresting features in the interrelation of the plant and animal worlds which have vivified for us of late years the dry bones of the old technical botany.
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