ON THE BLOOD 509 



with its implied negative death and its emissary disease, 

 and may be said, with a stretch of the scientific imagi- 

 nation, to shed a ray of light into the darkness surrounding 

 these great problems, as well as the problem of matter and 

 energy generally. Energy, in all its varieties, radio- 

 activity, and matter ponderable and imponderable, thus 

 shrink into a nearness of relationship and likeness of 

 character, which may be made to yield some day, to well- 

 directed investigation of the biological, physical, and 

 dynamic departments of science, stupendous results, 

 abstract and applied. 



Instead of being separated by great gulfs, all these 

 departments of science together constitute but an un- 

 broken line of ascent, from the simple to the complex, 

 from the elementary to the organised, from the material 

 to the dynamic, from the dead to the living ; in short, 

 from matter to spirit, in which the negative, or temporary, 

 at last gives place to or merges in the positive, the 

 affirmative, or the eternal matter, energy, and spirit thus 

 constituting the universe, when the " fulness of the time " 

 at last arrives, and forming an unbroken whole of the 

 "entire world," in which "death at last shall," in truth, 

 " be swallowed up in victory," and when science and 

 revelation will stand for ever joined in mutual agreement, 

 and oneness of end and aim, the bulwarks of eternal 

 truth. 



