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hostile influences from all sides impede or mar him. The 

 very forces that uphold him and furnish him with armory 

 of tools and power will destroy him the moment he is off 

 his guard. He is like the trainer of wild beasts who, at 

 his peril, for one instant relaxes his mastery over them. 

 Gravity, electricity, fire, flood, hurricane will crush or 

 consume him. If his hand is unsteady or his wits tardy, 

 nature has dealt with him as with all other forms of life. 

 She has shown him no favor." 



This is a very good description of the general condition 

 that prevails in nature. This is a true description of the 

 struggle for existence found everywhere in nature from 

 the smallest bacteria to the largest cell, as well as among 

 all plants and animals. We find the cell living singly in 

 the ocean, in his separate struggle for existence, has made 

 for himself a coat of armor from materials of different 

 kinds, such as horn, lime and flint. Without sufficient 

 intelligence to provide himself with these coverings, he 

 would have been unable to battle with the crushing ele- 

 ments of the sea and to perpetuate his existence. It might 

 be interesting to the reader to know what the great 

 scientist, John Burroughs of the Rockefeller Institute, has 

 to say in reference to what life really is. Here is part of 

 an article written by Mr. Burroughs : 



"Our studies of the past histories of the globe reveal 

 the fact that life appeared upon a cooling planet when the 

 temperature was suitable and when its basic elements, 

 water and carbon dioxide were at hand. How it began, 

 whether through insensible changes in the activities of 

 inert matter lasting whole geologic ages or through sud- 

 den transformation at many points on the earth's surface, 

 we can never know. 



"But science can see no reason for believing that its 

 beginning was other than natural. It was inevitable from 



