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will fall, its eschatology fade away. That alone will 

 remain; for it is, indeed, millions of years old; it has 

 been operative for two millions of centuries. Thousands 

 of years before our era, unhistoric Christs had announced 

 it in horde and conclave and died for it ; but Jesus put it 

 in the form of a world-faith for this latter epoch ; and his 

 service of love must ever command our reverent affection. 

 He identified himself with that universal law of life by 

 virtue of which ion and primeval psychon surrender their 

 self-lives to form the cell life, the cell the human intellect, 

 and by virtue of which still the human life will hereafter 

 live in the grander life of a deathless humanity. For the 

 psychon is not self-lost in the cell, nor the cell in the 

 organism, but from its self-surrender lives a better and 

 longer life ; and in the future grand sodality of human 

 life the individuals will become immortal, even as the cell 

 has prolonged its life in the brain. The vital unit is not 

 lost in the union. What it gives of self to the organiza- 

 tion returns to it again with compensations ; and he who 

 casts his life into the consentient human effort, takes it 

 again, ennobled by self-sacrifice ; it returns to him, christ- 

 ened and imbued by the larger life of which for a time it 

 has formed a part. The brain cell could never have 

 attained its present estate but for the greater personal life 

 of the organism in which, for a part of the time, it blends 

 itself. 



For the point to be kept steadily in view is, that cell 



