148 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



Such a position we occupy with re- 

 gard to the beings called cells. From 

 the result of their activities we con- 

 clude that they, like men, are en- 

 dowed with aspirations capable of thf: 

 highest conceivable evolution. Whad 

 economic necessities are to man, t\ie 

 arterial blood is to the cell. The blood 

 is an artificial product which nature 

 no more gives to the cell than it gi^es 

 clothes, food, houses and the like to 

 man. Nature provides the raw mate- 

 rial and cell and man alike must learn 

 how to adapt it for the necessities of 

 life. This operation, however, involves 

 great difilculties. All such artificial 

 products stand in inverse proportion 

 to the power of the individual. The 

 more perfect they are the more impos- 

 sible it is for the individual to produce 

 them. Only as citizens in a commu- 

 nity, that is, through organization, are 

 the individuals able to produce such 

 products as exceed their isolated forces. 



Although we cannot comprehend the 

 inner life of the cell, nor the world in 



