An unattributed passage Neville quotes: 'Behold this vine. I found it a wild tree whose wanton strength had swollen into irregular twigs. But I pruned the plant, and it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted as you see into these clean, full clusters to repay the hand that wisely wounded it.' In 1951 it is the tamed, disciplined (meek) mind; later lectures join it to 'I am the true vine' and the Father's pruning of the fruitful branch.