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dog, of which the bacillus, it is declared, has 

 never been isolated. Still this terrible un- 

 seen antagonist is met and conquered. On 

 the other hand, the consumption bacillus has 

 been isolated and is well known; still the 

 special antidote, the personal foe we may call 

 him, seems not yet to have come to the front. 

 Thus a large part of human suffering is due 

 to what may be called a cell-war, which has 

 its analogy to man-war, though the latter in- 

 volves the entire organism, indeed whole peo- 

 ples. The cell gets to fighting with the cell, 

 as nation with nation, or race with race. The 

 science of ailment (Pathology) has largely 

 reached down to the cell as the primordial 

 seat of bodily malady, which may affect the 

 whole sweep of cellular life pre-cellular, uni- 

 cellular and multi-cellular as associated. 

 That is, the single cell may become diseased, 

 then the association of cells may be broken 

 up by numerous causes ; doubtless, too, the 

 elemental cell-stuff (Protobioticon) can get 

 disordered, though this realm reaches as yet 

 beyond the microscope. Possibly the source 

 of rabies, which has never been seen, though 

 the malady yields to treatment, lies back in 

 the source of cell-life itself, in the very foun- 

 tain of cellular individuation. Here rises to 

 view a great future field for the investigator 

 who may yet through his science discover the 



