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Madison, MArch 13, '05 Monday Evening. John Muir My dear Friend for a generation backward and for countless more
to come. Last week I read in the MArch No. of the Century of Burbank's Miracles which had before been hid from my eyes -
At once I began to blazon? abroad the revelation which had flashed upon me like the lightening which unfolds heaven and earth
ere one can say it lightens - Others' eyes I soon found had sooner than mine felt the scales falling from their lids - yet
no one had seen so much as not to make greater eyes as he opened the Century - and saw its promise of more. Lancaster where
Burbank I find was b. in 1845 - is not far from Andover, and I had preached there myself as early as 1841. - and in that village
high school was all B's academics. - A new proof that genius as in Burns, Bunyan, and Shakespeare penetrates to truths deeper,
higher, wider than can be taught. We cannot say Pity it lacks instructions for it shows itself a master to all who teach what
humanitarian uses of Carnegie's bounty to make cactus the cure all of India famine. Do write me of your relations to B. when
you begin to know him. - How often you meet - what you judge his crowning achievement, - what new work he will explore? Who
else is second only to him? 03548