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life, perfect enough not to die, but live on continuously, 

 is a question and merely a question of excellent food, 

 protection from injury and germinal renewal, and not that 

 death is a final " law of nature," as a false eschatology 

 has hitherto taught mankind. 



If the science of biology teaches anything, it teaches 

 this truth of the possible deathlessness of cell life on the 

 earth ; and this truth is to the last degree important and 

 revolutionary. The doctrine that death is a final " law 

 of nature " has been made the cornerstone of that other 

 cardinal doctrine, namely, the " disembodied spirit " myth. 

 With the refutation of the doctrine that death is a " law of 

 nature " will fall this latter doctrine of disembodied souls. 

 For it will no longer have a raison d'etre. In its place will 

 come that grander gospel that life is the " law of nature," 

 not death, and the demonstration, long overshadowed by 

 errors of theology, that the "kingdom of God" is a 

 natural development of life on the earth. 



Two millions of centuries have struggled forward in 

 pain and travail to make the human brain capable of the 

 human intellect. It is a priceless heritage, the great an- 

 cestral estate of humanity. It is not destined forever, 

 nor much longer, to be lost in death; we shall carry it 

 through to a greater destiny. The true scope and intent 

 of life is now just dawning in the minds of men. We are 

 waking, after idle dreams, waking to what we can do 

 and be, waking to the great possibilities of science, wak- 



