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forms of life have been and are being derived by the 

 gradual modification of earlier forms. This theory 

 also tells us that all living matter is composed of little 

 cells or germs. It also assumes that there is a God 

 back of all, working out results along unalterable lines 

 of natural law, and this is certainly true to some ex- 

 tent, for no one will deny that all structures, animal 

 or vegetable, and that the bodies of every human being 

 are formed of minute organisms called cells as briefly 

 described, and that it is by a division and multiplica- 

 tion of such cells that every structure is built. In 

 man, beginning as a single parent cell, it divides and 

 reforms, ever tending from the lower to the higher, 

 until the central nervous system is complete. 



According to this teaching, any variety of organic 

 matter so situated as to develop special organs will 

 outlive other varieties, because "in union there is 

 strength." This is Charles Darwin's "Natural Selec- 

 tion/' and Herbert Spencer's "Survival of the Fittest." 



Nature has designed that the cells constituting the 

 human body should overcome all others because the 

 human body is the highest type of organic structure, 

 and to stop short of the highest would be a mistake, 

 and nature does not make mistakes. 



According to the bacteriologists but very few of these 

 so called germs are poisonous. They admit that of the 

 countless millions present on every hand only five or 

 six varieties are dangerous, yet these half dozen inno- 

 cent and defenseless germs are used as a basis from 

 which volumes have been written. They are a nucleus 



