192 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



to emphasize the significance of the 

 body even more than the cult of the 

 dead did in ancient time. 



But while materialism claims as its 

 own the consequences of the revolu- 

 tionary work of chemistry, biology lays 

 the firm foundation for a new and 

 higher development of religious con- 

 ceptions. Biology discovers and proves 

 the existence of that spiritual body 

 which humanity has surmised since 

 prehistoric times. It is to this extraor- 

 dinarily important fact that we desired 

 to call attention. We have endeav- 

 ored to draw its consequences only as 

 regards the cell-generations which suc- 

 cessively rise and die in the human 

 body as in human society. Now when 

 it can be shown that these dying gen- 

 erations are eternal and imperishable 

 parts of man's own nature, the concep- 

 tion of death and resurrection we have 

 here advanced must be the only possi- 

 ble one. The hitherto common ideas 

 regarding the translation of man to 

 another world have upon closer study 



