Personality of plants

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CHAPTER X
Religion in the Plant World
"Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth/'
—Byron
a sense, the entire plant world is a beauti-
ful and expressive worship of a bountiful
and beneficent Creator. No creed which does
not demy God will fail to see the silent but rev-
erent adoration exhibited by His handiwork.
Every tree which raises its brave crest toward
the heavens, every flower which greets the
warming sunlight with a smile, is a testimony to
the omnipotence of divine law. Fully explain
the wonders of a single blade of Grass, and you
have solved the mysteries which underlie the
universe.
Primitive peoples, who are always closely at-
tuned to natural influences, early discerned the
divine thread which runs through all plantdom.
In their incessant search for God, they did not
overlook His manifestations in the plants and
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