The Beginning of Life 



trate, the true Plan of Creation began to reveal itself to the 

 understanding of man. It is still revealing itself for there 

 are, as yet, many mysteries unsolved, and it will continue, 

 through the persistent and sacrificial efforts of man, to reveal 

 itself until we shall know the entire truth for it was so 

 ordained in the beginning. 



Educated people of today see and understand the Uni- 

 verse to be one great working system wherein each and every 

 part is related and working in harmony with all other parts; 

 that all these parts are directed in their work by unchanging 

 laws and that each part performs its own creative function. 

 It has been shown in the preceding chapters how Cultural 

 Evolution has changed the forms but not the substance of 

 things in order to adapt them to the uses of man. So Organic 

 Evolution has developed all of life by simply changing and 

 multiplying the first life cell. 



The scientist tells us that protoplasm in which the first 

 life cell was originated is made up of certain materials, com- 

 posed of the atoms and molecules of hydrogen, carbon, 

 nitrogen and oxygen and that these materials are found in 

 both living and dead things ; that they are borrowed by liv- 

 ing things from Nature's storehouses and then go back to 

 replenish and increase the storehouses from which they 

 came. Again the scientist tells us that the energy which 

 produces action in protoplasm is the same kind of energy 

 as that found in atoms, molecules, in heat, light and elec- 

 tricity, and also in the heavenly bodies. It has been proved 

 that nothing can destroy this energy. Its only change is in 

 its method of work. He also tells us that all bodies in the 



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