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of life, vegetable and animal, are associated. 

 It is no wonder, then, that the biologist has 

 come to occupy himself with the cell ; he is 

 probing to reach the original source of him- 

 self, as this living individual, and therewith 

 of all humanity, yea of all life. But if he 

 should reach a new, more elemental shape be- 

 yond the cell, would that be the end of his 

 search! It may well be doubted, for he has 

 not yet attained the infinitely small, he has 

 not vet come to the end of an infinite series 



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-nor will he. He has not yet passed the 

 bridge between the Inorganic and the Or- 

 ganic the real object of his hot pursuit, even 

 if unconscious. Meanwhile the scientist will 

 precipitate for us a great deal of most valu- 

 able knowledge, his very science, indeed, 

 through his endeavor to scrutinize the In- 

 scrutable which, of course, he never will. It 

 is no abuse of him we intend it as a due rec- 

 ognition of his worth that he does not, in the 

 long run, know what he is about. "Well, who 

 does? Nature is not self-conscious, in fact, 

 ends where self-consciousness begins. The 

 scientist becomes one with what he works in, 

 and shares in its deepest character ; he is un- 

 aware of his ultimate end, and, so is Nature, 

 though both are working for it with all their 

 might. The scientist is unconsciously teleo- 

 logic, as well as Nature, though he often re- 



