THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE 



history of life spread theraselveft over u» liks 

 this five and a half miles of water. At that time 

 had the cell already risen to a crab? But where 

 is the answer to our question? The millions of 

 years do not solve the riddle. Millions of years 

 alone do not give such power to the cell. 



There lies the lead of the investigator. Let 

 us examine somewhat more fully this ingenious 

 apparatus. An automatic self regulating mic- 

 roscope is utilized by it. United with this is a 

 searchlight. There rises a smooth rocky cliff 

 in the background. The lead apparatus has 

 brought up a fine specimen of soft slime. Now 

 it sinks under the microscope. The reflector 

 seizes the immensely enlarged picture — only the 

 middle of a little point of slime, a round field 

 of light appears on the surface of the cliff and 

 there moves in it, magically illuminated, a won- 

 derful picture. 



Twenty silver lances of most perfect work- 

 manship radiate from a central point in all di- 

 rections with the most perfect mathematical 

 symmetry. Each of these lances bears in the 

 middle of its shining shaft Uke a pierced trophy 

 a rhymically regular trellis work shield. And 

 since these shields in the middle of the lances 

 bend symmetrically downward they construct in 

 the space around the center a pierced trellis ball. 



I The outer half of the lance is tipped with a 

 gorgeous three-cornered summit like a glitter- 

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