BODY IS SPECIALLY ENDOWED WITH LIFE 137 



is composed did not manifest the phenomena nor the 

 energies of life until they were grouped into that body ; 

 on the other hand the body does not manifest vital 

 energies after its death. Life begins at a particular 

 moment and ceases at another specific instant. 



If a piece of iron be charged with electricity, it 

 will manifest electrical energy so long as it remains 

 charged. But when the electricity passes from it, the 

 iron ceases to exhibit such phenomena. So, when the 

 human body is charged or endowed with life, it 

 continues to manifest vital phenomena until life passes 

 out of it. 



Life is bestowed on the several species of animal 

 under divers conditions. Thus, it is bestowed on the 

 fertilized human ovum in the genital organs of the 

 mother, for the reason that this is the best, if not the 

 only, place for it to develop and grow. It is bestowed 

 on the eggs of fishes in the water ; and upon the eggs 

 of birds, after they have passed out of the bodies of 

 the mother bird. Let us consider the hen's egg for a 

 moment. When laid it contains a fertilized ovum and 

 "the white and the yellow" of the egg. It is a com- 

 plete and finished egg. But it has no life. Unless it 

 be placed under a sitting hen or in an incubator, it 

 will decay and disintegrate. 



The hen or incubator merely keeps it warm dur- 

 ing the period of incubation. By the end of the 

 twenty-first day, the contents of the egg-shell have 

 been converted into a live bird, with a skeleton, muscles, 

 arteries, veins, nerves, brain, eyes, ears, heart, lungs, 

 liver, wings, legs, feet, etc. There is no skeleton, model, 

 nor any other performed outline of the coming chick, 



