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nine:, is in process only, never finished, and therefore 

 without end. This is what intellect discovers. Now. if 

 there is any " aurora" around intellect, as said by Burg- 

 son, that can by any method be utilized to disclose that 

 the intellect at present is deluded, and that the eternal 

 round of phenomena, now supposed, can have a further 

 meaning, then let us strive toward such achievement. 



RENEWAL OF TISSUE. It has been urged by a paral- 

 lelist that periodically (one has said every two years) 

 a new brain results from the destruction of the old 

 cells and the formation of new cells. Therefore, how 

 could a continually renewed brain do the thinking? 

 Because a movement called metabolism is constant in 

 the body, that therefore a new body is being formed, 

 and that, in any set time, a new organism results, 

 different in function, is absurd. The multiplication of 

 cells, by which the body is formed, is a division of the 

 same cell handed down generation after generation with 

 its mnemonic quality, which makes it the same, in every 

 respect, as the former cell. "It is a continuation of the 

 personality of every ovum in the chain of its ancestry, 

 which ovum it actually is. quite as truly as the octo- 

 genarian is the same identity, with the ovum from 

 which he has been developed. * * * "We therefore 

 prove, each of us. to be actually the primordial cell 

 which never died, nor dies." Butler's "Life and 

 Habit," p. 86. This view is approved by W. Bateson in 

 his paper in "Darwin and Modern Science.' But aside 

 from this, the common sense of every individual teaches 

 him the falsity of the idea. A human being is con- 

 stantly aware that he is the identical organism, at 80, 

 or at any moment of his life, that he was at the first 

 dawn of his awaking memory. 



The brain from birth to death is made up, of exactly 



