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...Rothemund concluded that this was the process of photosynthesis and chlorophyll genesis after he raised an acre of colorless corn in the pitch-dark cellar of the big laboratory building which Antioch College built with Mr. Kettering's money. The extract of white corn leaves turned green when Dr. Rothemund put it in jars of carbon dioxide...
Soon biochemists were able to substitute liver extracts for cooked liver. A little later biochemists learned to extract a quintessence which could be administered with a hypodermic needle...
Your editor then goes on: "If the church is to continue as a vital force in American life, it must extract the virtues from existing institutions and build a better future on them." This is indeed a dangerous doctrine, all the more so because of its prevalence among our leaders today. Your editor will recall that Jesus of Nazareth didn't attempt to "extract the virtues from existing institutions." Quite the contrary, he fought the two most powerful of these institutions with all the physical and intellectual force which he could command. These two institutions were the Money-changers...
...church is to continue as a vital force in American life, it must extract the virtues from existing institutions and build a better future on them. Only by forgetting the dubious idealism of a bigoted theocracy can it hope to guide the American people into a new era of spiritual regeneration...
...botanists. He is not listed in international botanical encyclopedias. But the Russians say he has developed a palatable blend of apple and cherry which is grown in Siberia, apricots that bloom on snow-covered trees just south of the Arctic Circle, a fruitless lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract when pressed, frost-resisting grapes that flourish in Moscow and the Ural uplands. Undoubtedly he has produced fruits that yield more abundantly, stand shipment better and grow farther north than the older varieties. To bring out ever new mutations, he shocks with electricity the seeds of apples, watermelons, almonds, squash...