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Only the higher life, emerging from the immortal 

 single-celled form, is blessed by consciousness and 



— death. 



Death ! how sublime the thought when it is 

 recognized as the sign of a higher form of life ! 



The amoeba, unfeeling, unknowing, lives, grows, 

 divides ; goes on endlessly, with no development, 

 no enlightenment. 



In the more complex form something wakes to 

 consciousness ; the creature lives, it grows, it de- 

 velops, it understands — it dies. 



Because it is complex, intelligence dawns. 



Because it is complex, it dies. Beautiful death ! 



— sign of the sublime in life. 



The more complex beings, like the simplest 

 ones, bud off portions of the bod)' for purposes of 

 reproduction; unlike them, however, the budding 

 takes place from the inner part of the body instead 

 of from the surface. 



These inner portions so budded off in time may 

 develop into forms like the parent. 



The jelly-fish, which may be seen at any seaside, 

 is an illustration of this. There is the body-wall ; 

 the cavity within ; and from the latter a mass of 

 reproductive cells budded off. There are several 

 of these " buds" in each jelly-fish, and the story of 

 reproduction told in their development is wonder- 

 fully interesting and instructive, but unfortunately 

 it is very complicated ; so we will turn from the 

 pretty transparent forms floating like bulbs of 



