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 aiding in the fertilization of the seed, which may be, after all, only a preparatory process within the male. In the case of the reproduction of vegetable life we shall consider the sowing of seed as the fundamental one, and not the new plant resulting from the transplanted offshoot of the parent tree; the latter is rather a continuation of the process of growth; but in every case I feel that the tree or plant serves the father-function, and the earth always the mother-function.