THE BAFFLING PROBLEM 



It discloses to us the wonders of the cell — a world 

 of mystery by itself; it analyzes the animal body 

 into organs, and the organs into tissues, and the tis- 

 sues into cells, but the secret of organization utterly 

 baffles it. After Professor Wilson had concluded his 

 masterly work on the cell, he was forced to admit 

 that the final mystery of the cell eluded him, and 

 that his investigation "on the whole seemed to widen 

 rather than to narrow the enormous gap that sepa- 

 rates even the lowest forms of life from the inorganic 

 world." 



All there is outside the sphere of physical science 

 belongs to religion, to philosophy, to art, to litera- 

 ture. Huxley spoke strictly and honestly as a man 

 of science, when he related consciousness to the 

 body, as the sound of a clock when it strikes is re- 

 lated to the machinery of the clock. The scientific 

 analysis of a living body reveals nothing but the 

 action of the mechanical and chemical principles. 

 If you analyze it by fire or by cremation, you get 

 gases and vapors and mineral ash, that is all; the 

 main thing about the live body — its organization, 

 its life — you do not get. Of course science knows 

 this; and to account for this missing something, it 

 philosophizes, and relegates it to the interior world 

 of molecular physics — it is all in the way the ulti- 

 mate particles of matter were joined or compounded, 

 were held together in the bonds of molecular matri- 

 mony. What factor or agent or intelligence is active 



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