196 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



new, organic idealism and have treated 

 it somewhat more extensively only with 

 reference to death and resurrection. 

 But also on this point our work, as all 

 human effort, is only piecemeal labor. 

 As soon as we have advanced one step, 

 other entirely new questions arise. We 

 already discern boundless expanses of 

 problems in the same direction and 

 shall here point out one example. The 

 organic changes, characterizing old age 

 and preceding the so-called natural 

 death, are comparatively well studied 

 and known. But in spite of this, 

 natural science is unable to tell us the 

 underlying cause in the inner nature of 

 the organism, and it is even admitted 

 that we know no reason why the 

 process should not follow an entirely 

 opposite course. From our point of 

 view man has an individual content 

 larger than that included in the suc- 

 cessive moments of time, and death 

 should normally enter with the transla- 

 tion of the last cell-generation. It is 

 true that as civilization advances man's 



