STATEMENT No. 14. 



The power of the regeneration of molecules causes re- 

 generation of cells, and this causes regeneration of 

 Life. Life is Eternal. 



LET us fully grasp the point we have arrived at. 

 Atoms are indestructible. The grouping of atoms is 

 perpetually altering. All is in a state of change, and 

 change only. The human body is built up of atom?, 

 all in the molecular form. The evidence seems to tend 

 to the view that while the life of the individual exists, 

 or his cycle of change exists, all are under the control of 

 a single atom. So long as this commander-in-chief can 

 maintain the combination of the fundamental molecule, 

 and the molecules can maintain the existence of the fun- 

 damental cell, and this cell can hold its community of 

 cells together, we have the life of the individual. It is in 

 a condition of strain. When this controlling power is 

 lost, then the cellular matter disintegrates, arid we have 

 the phenomenon called death. And so delicate is this 

 condition of strain, i.e. life, that given even a shock, a 

 mental shock, which may have no apparently direct 

 physical cause, and death sometimes ensues. Moreover, 

 as this strain gets greater in age, mostly from the great 

 human struggle for existence, the desire for life wanes 

 and premature death takes place, which would not be 

 the case if the condition of the organism were happier. 



