522 THE TRUTH. 



into the air ; let us fly some distance backwards into 

 Space until we have reached the right point of view. 

 And now the colours blend and harmonise together, 

 and we see that the picture represents One Man. 



The body of a human individual is composed of cell- 

 like bodies which are called "physiological units." 

 Each cell or atom has its own individuality ; it grows, 

 it is nurtured, it brings forth young, and it dies. It 

 is in fact an animalcule. It has its own body and its 

 own mind. As the atoms are to the human unit, so the 

 human units are to the human whole. There is only 

 One Man upon the earth ; what we call men are not in- 

 dividuals but components ; what we call death is merely 

 the bursting of a cell ; wars and epidemics are merely 

 inflammatory phenomena incident on certain stages of 

 growth. There is no such thing as a ghost or soul ; 

 the intellects of men resemble those instincts which 

 inhabit the corpuscules, and which are dispersed when 

 the corpuscule dies. Yet they are not lost, they are 

 preserved within the body and enter other forms. Men 

 therefore have no connection with Nature, except through 

 the organism to which they belong. Nature does not 

 recognise their individual existence. But each atom 

 is conscious of its life ; each atom can improve itself 

 in beauty and in strength ; each atom can therefore, 

 in an infinitesimal degree, assist the development of the 

 Human Mind. If we take the life of a single atom, 

 that is to say of a single man, or if we look only at a 

 single group, all appears to be cruelty and confusion ; 

 but when we survey mankind as One, we find it 

 becoming more and more noble, more and more divine, 

 slowly ripening towards perfection. We belong to 

 the minutiae of Nature, we are in her sight, as 

 the rain-drop in the sky ; whether a man lives, or 



