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The Seed
By Dr. Frank Crane
The writer with 16,000,000 readers daily
Perhaps the most amazing, baffling,
mysterious thing in all the universe is a
seed.
Look at an apple tree. All of its trunk
form, its branches, its leaves, and their
veins, its delicate blossoms, and its red
fruit, were contained in a little, brown,
hard seed.
Open the seed, and you see nothing but
a whitish filling; yet that substance has
powers as strange as mind, it has a plan
that implies woodl, flowers, and apples.
Take two particles of vitald fluid. The
microscopist can hardly determine a dif
ferencc between them; yet from one comes
a lion. with all his complicated organism
of hair, nails, blood vessels, viscera, nerve
threads, mental tendencies, characteristics;
and from the other a man with a body as
complex as that of the lion, and with a
brain containing the thoughts. fancies, and
spiritual functions of an intelligent being.
The miracle of miracles is life. And
the seed is life's most miraculous mani
fcstation. IF I were going to be a heathen
and seek in Nature some object to worship
as God, some object embodying the infinite
mystery of life, I should worship a seed.
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