THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE 



evident his mind's eye, his cell brain, can still 

 see this mammoth of the previous summer! 



If this mind's picture is now strong enough 

 to move the hand so that the mammoth picture 

 is placed upon the cave wall then this also is but 

 the same thing as the ancient directing power of 

 the radiolaria which places in every individual, 

 particles of silica in a star or cross after the 

 manner prescribed by inheritance. The method 

 of this mammoth painting is somewhat widened, 

 somewhat less personal in expression. It no 

 longer places particles of silica together to form 

 a bodily covering. It grasps a single large piece 

 of silica, the flint, and scratches, while a pro- 

 jection of its protoplasmic body, the hand, 

 guides this hard foreign piece of mineral to 

 sketch out the mammoth on the cave wall. The 

 stage of "tools" contrasted to that of the "or- 

 gan" expresses itself here clearly enough in the 

 contrast between the knife and the hearth fire, 

 the claws of the beast of prey and the illumin- 

 ating organs of the deep sea fish which have 

 grown out of their bodies. The tool is a high- 

 er, freer stage, but built upon the same ancient 

 double principle of life, remembrance and pow- 

 er of arrangement; these have finally given to 

 that memory picture a body once more, an ex- 

 terior actual reality. 



Blessed winter that gave such progress to 

 life! Even the trifling cooler night of eternal 

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