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Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1860: Agriculture
Behold the power of a seed; however minute, the embodiment of a complete inherent entity. It produces promised results with unerring certainty, when all the conditions are fulfilled. It is a credit to man by the great Jehovah, and the draft will be honored as sure as the sun shall rise - as sure as effect shall succeed to cause.
In the tropics continual verdure prevails, and the vegetation of successive zones is varied and governed by irrefrangible omnipotent dispensations, apparent active life subsiding at fixed intervals of time, and its outward symbols falling when an era of rest ensues. The higher animals stand watch on earth the sun Speeds on through space, by paths unknown to man, dispensing blessings to uncounted worlds, until the welcome return of its genial rays once more revives the surface of our planet A wave of verdure now swells and rolls on again from the equator to the impassable barrier eternal at the poles.
The coincident power of the interior heat and of the sun, together with the composition of the rocks which form the earth, are subjects of the present investigation. Were it not for the in?uence of the sun the entire mass of the earth would be dependent upon its own inadequate resources for the principle upon which, so far as our knowledge extends, vege table and animal life is maintained. Without this external vivifying power the earth would be unfit for the abode of those creatures which are essential to each other, and which unitedly proclaim the glory of the Almighty. The minute and intimate actions forever in progress upon and in the earth are not only indispensable to life, but even to the preparation of the constituent elements of organized existence.
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