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been believed once, but will hardly obtain credit in our 

 times. In fact, we are on the brink of such dis- 

 coveries. 



We need to know the composition of the animal ovum, 

 of what the germinal matter consists, how and whence it 

 arrives there, and how it may be produced artificially. 

 We have to discover what selected components ions, 

 electrons, psychons, or biophors this animal ovum is com- 

 posed, to the end that the various tracts of somatic cells 

 issue from it and coordinate in the tissues of the organism. 

 We have to learn on what actual physical basis old-aging 

 proceeds : whether as animal life goes on, the tissue cell is 

 slowly depleted of its initial complement of germinal mat- 

 ter; whether the original "charge" of ancestral life-germs 

 is gradually exhausted in numbers or potency ; or whether 

 the contents of this body cell are homogeneous, and old- 

 aging ensues from imperfect foods and the ravages and 

 deleterious products of bacteria. 



In short, we have to learn whether the somatic cell runs 

 down, like a water spring, from expenditure of its con- 

 centrated biophors, or whether it is simply smothered, 

 poisoned, slowly encysted and suffocated by the weather- 

 ing, infiltration, and induration of the tissues in which it 

 lies embedded. Whether old-aging is a slow form of 

 starvation from the contraction and hardening of the capil- 

 lary walls and the thickening of the lung membranes. 



Or yet, whether all these causes operate together, 



