46 Natural Salvation. 



labor for the common good of the union, the cell-of-life, as 

 first seen in the protozoon, has come to live two centuries, 

 instead of two days, with a legitimate inference that it is 

 practically deathless under improved organic conditions. 

 That is to say, there is nothing in the constitution of the 

 cell, no biogenetic law, that prevents it from living in- 

 definitely. Revolutionary as this deduction may appear 

 to those who teacli and believe that death is a final law of 

 nature, the rever.se of that doctrine can now be confidently 

 maintained. It need scarcely be added that this conclu- 

 sion is of the greatest significance, as affecting our beliefs 

 concerning human life and the future of life on the earth. 



And now after metazoons, what? After cell unions 

 and cell organization in the animal organism, what next? 

 After an organized development which has resulted in the 

 advancement of the cell, the brain cell, to a high degree 

 of intelligence and a grand longevity, what next in the 

 line of its progress ? 



Bearing in mind that the cell is the original and, 

 strictly speaking, the only type or mode of life which has 

 thus far appeared on the earth, what means will be adopted 

 to still further improve and better its lot? Will it of its 

 own initiative inaugurate anything better or greater than 

 the animal organism as we see it about the cerebro-spinal 

 axis in vertebrates ? 



