. Complimentary banquet in honor of Luther Burbank. Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926; Plant breeding. G)mplimentary Banquet to Lwthcf Burbank In common with you all, we admire Mr. Burbank, as a genius to whom the great of the earth do \\alling and gracious homage. The wise men, the great philanthropists, the suc- cessful and far-seeing students of Nature, the}' to whom much power has been given to learn of the really valuable things of life, and who are willing to toil and to sacrifice for the world's good, come from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, to sit at the feet o
. Complimentary banquet in honor of Luther Burbank. Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926; Plant breeding. G)mplimentary Banquet to Lwthcf Burbank In common with you all, we admire Mr. Burbank, as a genius to whom the great of the earth do \\alling and gracious homage. The wise men, the great philanthropists, the suc- cessful and far-seeing students of Nature, the}' to whom much power has been given to learn of the really valuable things of life, and who are willing to toil and to sacrifice for the world's good, come from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, to sit at the feet of this great apostle and prophet of beauty and happiness. They come from the ends of the earth, and count no sacrifice too great, no journej' too burdensome, if they may br permitted to see with their own eyes the priceless products of his untiring labors, to learn something of his methods of work, and to catch som_e measure of his matchless inspira- tion. The trackless wastes of the desert, the frozen peaks of the mountains, the innumerable trials of wearisome journeys do not abate the zeal of the pilgrims who gather at the shrine of this High Priest of Nature's secrets. They remind one of the indomitable resolution and heroic courage of Henn^ IV of Germany, manifested in his nerve- racking journey over the Alps in the dead of \^nnter in that memorable visit to the rocky fastness of Canossa to implore the favor of the mighty- Hildebrand. They come to see this quiet, unassuming citizen, who, if he were to consult his own feelings, would rather emulate Democritus, who rejoiced in the fact that when he came to Athens nobody there did so much as to take notice of him. We see in i\Ir. Burbank the "noble ideality" of real, not the "ignoble realt}^" of spurious greatness. This is re- vealed to all who know him well. As we consider his work, and as we know the splendid character of the citi2^n an(5. . 40 . .. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned
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