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namely, slow starvation and suffocation, combined with 

 depletion of the inherited germinal matter. 



For exhaustion or expenditure of the vivific units of 

 the somatic cells, some process of inoculation, kataphoresis, 

 or inward radiation of ions may be devised ; for the pro- 

 gressive suffocation, poisoning-out and starvation of the 

 cells, an amelioration of all the conditions of life as we now 

 live it, must be accomplished, viz., the extermination of 

 bacteria, purification of the atmosphere and the use of foods 

 adapted to protoplasmic renewal ; all purely physical 

 problems and properly the subjects of scientific research ; 

 and all in line and continuation of that natural salvation 

 of the cell-of-life from accident, disease and death, which 

 has been in progress since life began on the earth. 



Parent and child, through a hundred generations, con- 

 stitute but one human personality, pressing forward, in 

 time, to become something better, wiser, more powerful 

 and happier. The parent dies and the child succeeds, 

 but at a vast loss of knowledge and of time, not because 

 death and birth are the ideal or ultimate laws of life, but 

 merely because we have not yet acquired sufficient knowl- 

 edge and power to escape death. The human personality, 

 incarnate, living on from century to century, conserving 

 science, able to renew itself and resist all the vulgar 

 agencies of decay and death, is the ideal human being, 

 not a chain of parents and children. 



But life, as we now live, is one long contention with 



