THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE 



as the tenacious life of these LiHputians contin- 

 ues. Produced bj the chemical processes of the 

 living cell this wonderful light, which contains 

 no red and no heat rays, does not consume the 

 tiny gelatinous body from which it streams — 

 the naked human body that plunges into these 

 glowing sea waves which gleam like the liquid 

 metal of the bubbling sun, plunges freezing into 

 a dark cold flood, into a cold light. 



This light has remained true to life from the 

 beginning. Just as in the soft phosphoric light 

 of the milky way, single great stars shine out 

 like coiled crystal blossoms, so out of this bac- 

 terian and infusiorian sea the larger torches of 

 higher animals raise themselves. Up to thou- 

 sands and thousands individual cells have come 

 together, have coalesced into an association, 

 forming beings of a higher order, true animals, 

 with differentiated organs in which numerous 

 cells working in common create a division of 

 labor, thus building up higher individuality. 

 The stomach and skin are developed in this 

 higher form of life. An ingenious apparatus 

 for movement has also originated. The old sen- 

 sitive surface has spun itself through the whole 

 body into a network of nerves. By means of 

 it sensations and motor reflexes fly here and 

 there as though on an inner telegraph system, 

 here a spark carries intelligence to central, there 



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