142 Life and Love. 



Impressed upon egg and sperm-cell are not only 

 the physical characteristics of the ancestors, but 

 also their mental and emotional characteristics. 



A fine mind and a good heart leave an immu- 

 table impress upon the reproductive cells, so sensi- 

 tive to whatever affects the life to which they are 

 united, and which it is their office to pass on. 



Although they appear so small to us, they are 

 boundless in capacity to receive and retain im- 

 pressions from their universe, the living body. 



They are like the human mind in this limitless 

 power of receptivity. 



Strange, vital cells, apparently but tiny drops of 

 protoplasm., apparently as simple in structure as 

 the amceba, they force us to bow before a mystery 

 as limitless as it is sublime. 



No wonder that the ancients avowedly wor- 

 shipped the mighty force of regeneration. Strange 

 that any should stand insensible to its beauty and 

 its holiness. 



