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...hand." But how does Zane know them? Does he care? Does he approve? Does he condemn? Indeed, for the reader, does it matter? Wyeth and Steiner ultimately appear trivial and absurd. A child, at least, grows up; but the down-and-outs in Easy Living are adults gone to seed. They are grown men and women romping in diapers, shouting to attract our attention, aware of our criticism, scornful of our values, yet forever concerned with what we think of them. Children we can tolerate; child-men and child-women we generally lock up. Unfortunately, Wyeth and Steiner broke loose...
...commands to grow no more . . . and it grew no more. The top of it darkened and withered and it remained in the stunted, non-growing condition. No more seedlings appeared on the negated side, though we held the experiment open for 20 days before digging, photographing and measuring each seed. Later one of the mathematicians on Dr. Rhine's staff at Duke University did a quick computation of the probability factor of this experiment. It came out over...
After more than 700 experiments conducted by about 150 people on 27,000-odd seeds and seedlings, concludes Experimenter Loehr, "our research has shown . . . that prayer can make a difference in the speed of seed germination and in the rate and vigor of plant growth. This in turn demonstrates two things: 1) that prayer is fact, and 2) that scientific laboratory research can be done in basic religious fields...
Henry David Thoreau's seed plants are examined by REED C. ROLLINS, Director of the Gray Herbarium at the University Herbarium. Six portfolios of dried and mounted specimens collected by Thoreau were given to the University recently by the Trustees of the Concord Free Public Library...
...seed plants were presented by Thoreau to the Boston Society of Natural History, and by the Society to the Concord Library. Thoreau's collections of grasses and sedges, the property of the New England Botanical Club, are also deposited at the University Herbarium...