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ture of what they are about to do. Not only must they 

 have a mental picture of the particular structure that they 

 start out to build, but they must also have a mental pic- 

 ture or knowledge stored in their memory of how they 

 shall go about to accomplish the work. 



It is, however, nothing more than reasonable to expect 

 that they should know how to do this, as they have per- 

 formed the work millions of times before. We see in 

 our body that the white cells are soldiers, which have not 

 been stationed at any certain permanent work as nerve 

 cells, muscles, etc., have, but have a general knowledge 

 of performing almost any act that may come up and may 

 be required as necessary to the welfare and existence of 

 the body. In the case of the healing of a fracture of a 

 bone or a wound, some will take the job of building 

 epithelial cells ; some will build connective tissues and 

 some will build bone; others will destroy themselves in 

 their effort to destroy invading hordes of dangerous 

 enemies like germs and bacteria. They all go to work 

 immediately in case of a bruise, cut or broken bone with 

 the skill and knowledge accumulated in the past ages in 

 their memory, each at his job, knowing just how to do 

 any or all of the work, each and all willing to do any- 

 thing that may be necessary to affect a repair, each one 

 working in harmony with the other in such manner as 

 not to interfere with the work of the other. Thus alone 

 could it be possible for them to fix up a broken leg or 

 other bruised, crushed or mutilated organ. 



The religion of the cell is similar to that of the Japan- 

 ese. Patriotism is the expression of his religion. The mind 

 of the cell does not split hairs as to his individual rights 

 or the rights of the body or of the race. So far as he is 

 concerned the welfare of the body and its perpetuation is 

 the whole object of life. The body is the object to live 



