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All that plant life has so far attained and all that it will attain to in future perhaps also all that it might have attained to must have been present in the plant-spirit of that original plant-germ.
The rose-spirit could reach out along the line of roses to an unlimited extent. It could produce nothing but roses; it could not produce laburnums. But it could produce roses of unlimited variety, provided favourable conditions were available. But the Rosa persica was itself the outcome of a long line of development from a far-away primordial plant-germ.
From that original plant-germ have sprung all the ferns and grasses, the shrubs and trees and flowers, of the present day. So in that plant-germ must have resided the plant-spirit with an ideal of all this variety of plant-life actuating it unconsciously, of course, but most effectively for all that.
And both the original plant-germ and the original animal-germ sprang from an original plant-animal germ. And this, again, from the Earth itself. So that the Earth must always have had hidden in it the ideal of all plant and animal and human life and not only the ideal of what it has reached at present, but of all it will become, and, it is important to note, of all it might become in future.
This, being an animal germ, naturally would not grow or live like a plant-germ and must have been carried into the human body by the bite of some other animal. The only animals that bite us often enough to transmit such a disease are insects of different sorts; and, as biting insects are commonly found flying around swamps, suspicion very quickly settled upon the mosquito. Position on the wall.
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