THE SUMMIT OF THE YEARS 



from the first. Matter does not beget matter, but 

 life does beget life. 



Given this tendency to increase, to seek new 

 forms, will natural selection do the rest? Start the 

 worm, and in due time will man appear? The finite 

 mind, the mind developed and disciplined in this 

 world of effort, of rule and guidance, of cause and 

 effect, fails to see how the unguided, the irrespon- 

 sible, fortuitous action of a multitude of cells would 

 and could build up the human body, or any other 

 living body. Count and analyze every cell in a 

 man's body, and you have not found the man: he is 

 the result of all the myriads of cells acting in unison; 

 he is the unit arising out of this vast multiplex series 

 of units; they are all coordinated and working to- 

 gether to an end which no one of them, nor any 

 group of them, knows. The man is a unit, the tree is 

 a unit, the flower, the fruit, is a unit; each with 

 form, structure, color, quality of its own, each made 

 up and built up of an incalculable number of 

 minute units, none of which have the secret of the 

 key to the whole. There must be a plan which is not 

 in the keeping of the cells. These units act together 

 as the men of an army act together in battle, carry- 

 ing out a system of manoeuvres and of tactics, of 

 which individually they know nothing. 



Who does know? Whose plan is it? Who and 

 where is the general who is conducting the cam- 

 paign? 



