On the Campus; Addresses Delivered At Various Times Before University And College Audiences
On the Campus; Addresses Delivered At Various Times Before University And College Audiences
Thomas H Thomas Huston Macbride
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All be- cause luxurious man dislikes a fruit with seeds! The navel orange has entrusted its whole destiny to man: he may carry it along by budding; the tree makes no effort more to perpetuate itself. It has foregone the power of forming seeds. But man's selective agency goes farther still; it reach- es even the world of microscopic plants, and has nurtured Digitized by Google 184 On the Campus and perpetuated forms which until recently the human eye had never seen ! Here is yeast, for instance,... a tiny plant that has the wondrous power of conyerting sugar into alcohol ; m^i have been using this microscopic plant through thousands of years, using it and excluding other similar forms and yet they never saw nor even suspected the organism they handled. It is said that the ancient dynasties of Egypt understood the art of brewing. And so from generation to generation we have handed down our yeast; even to this day from hand to hand. But there are stranger illustrations stilL In the old European world in days gone by, as we know, there were scores of little principalities and states.
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