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Excerpt from The Cosmic Roots of Love
Even in vegetable life they have started. The plant, too, is a sort of society, with varied members united in mutual service and sacrifice. Leaves give their lives for the tree, like good families for the State. The ?ower is a family, botanists say, with even the wedding Of sexes and parental sacrifice for the Offspring. The ?ower may not be conscious of its virtues, - and we Often wish that some human families were, in this respect, more like it. But in it the ethical principle is on the way to consciousness.
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