LIFE PROTOPLASM 101 



and can say no more. We have no further revela 

 tion to make. We have no message from any world 

 unseen. We have no light from a higher sphere. We 

 exist, and we operate after our fashion, and that is all." 

 But it is not all. They do not thus speak. They are 

 thus made as if they were a chaos, as if they were on a 

 level with particles of different measures, characteristics, 

 and forces, and having no relationship to, and adaptation 

 for, each other, but fit only to exist in space, loose, use- 

 less, and inert incapability itself. The latter would have 

 no message. They could only say : " We exist. We 

 exist each particle by itself and for itself. We know not 

 each other. We are nothing to each other. We cannot 

 draw together. We can neither combine nor build. It is 

 not in us to produce the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of 

 a product. We are helpless, meaningless, messageless.' ; 

 But it is not so with the former. They are not a chaos. 

 They are not loose, unrelated, and incapable. They are 

 rich in potencies and relationships, and can build up and 

 produce upon the most magnificent scale and with the 

 most brilliant results. And therefore they are not to be 

 degraded to the level of the latter, as if they spake the 

 same empty speech. They are not as they, helpless and 

 useless, and therefore are not meaningless and messageless. 

 They mean largely. They are charged with the grandest 

 of messages. They shine with a light whose source 

 cannot be mistaken, a light which can only proceed from 

 mind, and which only mind can interpret, but whose 

 meaning the simplest intelligence can easily recognise. 

 They speak with a clearness and force to cure deafness. 

 They do not cry out and shout and roar as the hurricane, 

 the earthquake, and the fire. They speak in a still small 

 voice, but in tones so distinct and so divine, as to make 

 him who hath a hearing ear wrap his face in a mantle. 



