Harland Coultas

Botany has not yet obtained that position to which it is deservedly entitled, as a preparatory

study to the organography and physiology of animals. It is still excluded from the most important
medical schools; and this state of things will continue despite of all the efforts of botanists,
so long as the plant is regarded as if it were isolated from the rest of organic nature.
At first sight, nothing would seem to be more widely different from each other, than an animal
and a plant. … But if we consider the vital phenomena manifested by animals and plants, we shall
very soon see that there is abundant reason for believing that the difference between these organic
productions of nature is not so great as we at first thought.

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