II 



THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE 



The star fish that crawls slowly over the ooze 

 in its emerald green light, has a fierce greedy 

 mouth like an inverted flower on its underside. 

 Blind sacks of its stomach reach into each of 

 its five arms and near the top of the star an 

 anus throws out the undigested remains. The 

 delicate sea-lily has a mouth, one yawns on 

 every shining rose of the polyp stock, wild ed- 

 dies constantly pump nourishment in and out 

 of the sponges. But in every one of these hun- 

 gry creatures is placed a second tremendous J 

 power, bom with the life principle and great 

 in its consequences. 



All life is able out of itself to create new and 

 abundant life. 



When in spring the golden dandelion blos- 

 soms crowd in thousands on the green meadows 

 a lovely wonder accomplishes itself for the play- 

 ing children who in their joy, however, surmise 

 nothing of the great secret of nature. At the 

 height of its power, this golden star turns it- 

 self into a white silken ball. A child's mouth 

 blows the ball asunder. The delicate tissues 

 fly away; like tiny elves the little pieces journey 

 off^. But out of every little elf blown away on 

 its aerial journey will come new dandelions. 



Every one of the creatures in this five and a 

 half mile water column has this power at some 

 time in some form to develop an elf en ball like 

 the dandelion. From the cell unity of its bod}^ 



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