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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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tes of eachother, as are two coins struck from thesame die. This individuality is a gift oforganic life. It may be difficult for thecasual eye to detect it, as in the case oftwins; but while the world at large, andindeed the near relatives of twins, aresaying that they cannot tell the differencebetween them, the mother, with her keeninsight, never for one moment confoundsthem. Individuality implies possible var-iability. Without this variability we shouldhave the identical likeness as of coins. Andmore: if this variability lies within certainlimitations of organic life, the variationwhich is brought about is handed on tothe offspring of the varying individual.Heredity is a factor of great importancein organic life. If individuality with itsvariability fits any organic being for itssurroundings more adequately than otherswhich exist there, that being prospers moresurely and gradually displaces the less fit.The world has had these notions drummedinto it against much opposition and vitu-
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A myriad buttercups yellow the open hills. i56 The Outing M agazine peration for half a century, so that the re-counting of them is an old story; but thestudy of this columbine in the cedar grovedemands that we should have them clearin our minds. Now, long ago (that is the most conven-ient expression, though, indeed, it waslong before the pyramids were built), aplant appeared that had a flower—aphaenogam, the learned called it—a flowerconsisting of a number of leaves growingon an axis. The elongation of the axishad been arrested so as to bring the leavesinto whorls. The upper whorls had beenmodified into chambers containing anovule each, but these ovules must be fer-tilized with pollen before they would pro-duce seed. This powdery pollen was sup-plied by lower sets of whorls which ap-peared below the ovule-bearing ones.These two sets of organs were inclosedwithin another whorl, consisting of fiveleaves. So we have, beginning from above,a pistil, a coronet of stamens, and a set ofs

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