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other, there would be no harmony of form, size, nor 

 structure in the edifice. Surely, the atoms and cells 

 in the right leg would have no knowledge of the form, 

 size, nor structure of the left; and no organ, nor any 

 part of the body, would have any power to adjust 

 itself, automatically, to any other. 



Sec. 48. Propositioc 15. Each Human 

 Body is Specially Endowed with Life 



Neither the spermatozoon nor the ovum is a living 

 creature, for neither of them has the power to take 

 and assimilate food; nor to develop and grow, alone. 

 But when they unite and fuse, this combination begins 

 to live, it absorbs and assimilates food or nourishment, 

 develops, divides and produces an infinite number 

 of daughter-cells. The atoms in the fertilized ovum 

 are identically the same that were in the sperm- 

 atozoon and ovum before the fusion occurred. Per- 

 haps these atoms form new chemical combinations. 

 But we cannot believe that any possible combination 

 of atoms could automatically take on the energies and 

 phenomena of life. Any good chemist can make the 

 same combination of atoms that is found in the fertil- 

 ized ovum ; but his combination would not absorb and 

 assimilate food, it would not live, develop nor grow. 



Life is not a property of matter but something 

 wholly different from it. Matter may exist without 

 life ; but apparently, life cannot exist without matter. 

 It is evident that the atoms of which the human body 



