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wholly dead. So Cliemism we see undoing it- 

 self into and through Life, its immediate 

 goal. Still we have to ask ourselves : Is this 

 colossal factory of the total Cosmos built 

 up just to produce a little speck of Life on 

 our Earth-ball! Probably the same product 

 exists elsewhere, though we have not yet 

 found it. Still further, science declares that 

 the small speck of Life, is destined to be 

 snuffed out, be it the cell or your body, or the 

 Earth's total organism. If that be so, Life 

 will relapse into Chemism, which will again 

 be the highest stage of Nature's Evolution; 

 and the supreme transformation of the Cos- 

 mos of Matter and Motion through the Dia- 

 cosmos of Heat, Light and Chemism into the 

 Biocosrnos of living shapes will have come to 

 an end. Such has been the recent scientific 

 view held up before us on many sides, and 

 has to be considered not only in its own right, 

 but as an image of the spirit of science, and 

 also as a deep-seated strain of the present 

 age. Still we have here to add a more recent 

 fact: the discovery of radium, which seems 

 (though its character is by no means fully 

 unfolded as yet) a kind of universal chemical 

 element, which is self-radiative or self-sep- 

 arative, but has the power of recovering the 

 energy which it has given out. Thus it has 

 a speck of the total chemical process within 



