THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE 



years ago, the same power which leads the mi- 

 grating birds on the same wandering path which 

 their ancestors have followed for countless gen- 

 erations? Indeed is it not also the same mar- 

 velous power which compels the fertihzed gerin 

 cell in the hen's egg to divide itself according 

 to an absolutely determined system and to di- 

 vide again and again until a whole cell state 

 arises and which forces the cells of this state to 

 an absolutely determined order of structure and 

 organs, and which finally without any outside 

 assistance, save warmth and air, causes a new 

 living chicken to arise beneath this egg shell? 

 That which has been acquired through the 

 wondrous series of animal generations and be- 

 queathed from the oldest one-celled animals 

 down to the vertebrates and finally to the type 

 of the bird is the power to force the cells of the 

 birds' egg to complete their ordered arrange- 

 ment in the shortest space of time and perfectly 

 automatically. In the same manner certain as- 

 sociations in the mind can cause a whole chain 

 of events which in actual time were experienced 

 through years or decades or even a whole human 

 life to arise in a single moment in the memory. 

 Does not remembrance rest upon inheritance 

 even from the very beginning of the endless 

 process of life upon the earth? Only through 

 this power of remembrance of the cells does this 

 cave being become possible. It appears very 

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