Burbank's Beliefs

Despite his 76 years, Luther Burbank, great naturalist, is constantly busy with botanical researches, experiments and observations, publishing freely his results (TIME Jan. 18, SCIENCE). He has come to be known affectionately as "California's Grand Old Man" for his kindliness, his humanity, his love of children. He has a personal creed of welldoing and a God who is one to love and not to fear. Further, he has a hearty, outspoken, incisive contempt for many religious creeds and dogmas, especially the theory of predestination.

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