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be torn down and carried away by the cell. Children's 

 teeth in t-he same manner are taken apart as microscopic 

 particles and carried off, so that new ones can be formed 

 in their places as permanent teeth. 



Take another instance of the wonderful architectural 

 skill of the cell in building the antlers of the deer and elk. 

 The antlers are built up in the spring and summer and 

 fall off again in the fall after they have been used and are 

 not necessary any more for the purpose for which they 

 were built. They are built for only one purpose and that 

 is as a weapon with which to fight other male deer. While 

 these antlers are growing, they are covered with a deli- 

 cate skin called velvet, and through this velvet the blood 

 circulates, carrying the multitude of working cells and 

 the building material of which the antlers are made. The 

 cells work together and build up the snags, beams and 

 tynes that make up the antler. Like a hive of a million 

 busy bees or skilled workers, they work beneath the 

 warm velvet all spring and summer to form those enorm- 

 ous weapons, sometimes five or six feet high. In the 

 early fall the cells quit work and retire into the body. 

 The velvet under which they had worked falls like the 

 autumn leaves and the hard bony weapons are exposed 

 ready for battle. As soon as the antlers are ready the 

 male deer is also ready to challenge another male deer to 

 mortal combat and they fight for the possession of the 

 female, who stands by ready to take the victor as her mate. 

 As soon as the loves and battles are over and the mating 

 is completed, the antlers are no longer of any use and 

 they are shed. That is to say, they are cut off near the 

 skull by those who formed them the cells. 



The deer is a nation of a billion or more individual 

 cells who work together in harmony for one purpose, for 

 one idea, the welfare of all, just as does the German or the 



