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really evolved, and to become one with her, 

 especially on her psychical side, and to articu- 

 late her who has no articulation. This the 

 scientist does for his time and people a serv- 

 ice of the highest order. For the evolution- 

 ary clock strikes the hour when the man has 

 to go back to his own evolution in and out 

 of Nature, and take the same up into himself 

 that he may make the step in advance. 



A little study, then, it is well to give to the 

 leading category or defining term of Cytol- 

 ogy, which is declared to be the science of the 

 Beginning of Life, since this tool of mind has 

 its subtle character which ought to be under- 

 stood by those who employ it as a scientific 

 concept. 



When it comes to the right ordering of this 

 cell-science, several points of view may be 

 taken. There are many kinds of cells, for in- 

 stance, and they show various characters. 

 Some have a far tougher vitality than others, 

 seeming to concentrate a greater strength 

 and intensity of life. Birth, maturation, de- 

 cline, death move through their periods in the 

 cell as in man, of whom it is in so many ways 

 the organic prototype as well as the constit- 

 uent. Millions of lives are being lived in our 

 life, each with its rise, bloom and decay. Each 

 inhabitant of the Earth and there are sup- 

 posed to be sixteen hundred millions of them 



