The Message of Science. 33 



Man's hundred thousand years are but as a span to the 

 era of vertebrate monsters and monstrosities, while earth's 

 young unicells were making their first tremendous efforts 

 at organization. 



But when two or more cells unite to live together as 

 one, each has first to surrender, either temporarily or per- 

 manently, its own self-conscious personality ; and then as 

 a merger of all these surrendered personalities there 

 ensues a larger, grander self about a new axis of self- 

 consciousness. 



The most perfect example of this self-surrender and 

 resultant, grand consentience is exhibited in the brain of 

 man. Here temporarily during the day some sixty mil- 

 lions of " cells " extend filamentous processes and, all 

 taking hold of hands, so to speak, surrender each its self- 

 consciousness and autonomy to form the human intellect. 

 From this grand surrender, and at the instant it is 

 made, there flashes forth the consentient human person- 

 ality, the "soul of man." It is done as if by electric 

 contact. This intellect or " soul " is the union of these 

 sixty millions of brain cell lives ; they surrender self to 

 live as one. 



But in the brain this is but a temporary self-surrender. 

 Owing probably to the severe vital draught which the 

 consentience makes on the individual cell the human 

 intellect cannot remain constant or continuous. There 



