A brief portion of an Easter sermon by Gregor Mendel

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Gregor Mendel, who served as the Abbot of the Augustinian monastery in Brno in what is now the Czech Republic, is recognized today as the founder of the modern science of genetics, on account of of his experiments with the breeding of plants.  This is a brief portion of an Easter sermon by Mendel (from notes written in his own hand) that makes reference to gardening and plants.

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