54 Natural Salvation. 



ing to live, instead of resigning ourselves to death and 

 mythical promises of ghost life. 



But how ? How will this be accomplished ? Granted 

 that the cells of the human bi-ain may live for a century, 

 the entire human organism still -dies and the cells perish 

 with it. How will this fate be altered or averted? 



The answer is plain. It is already outlined and indi- 

 cated in the manner and the means by which the cell has 

 prolonged its lifetime from a few days to a century. We 

 have but to study the rise and progress of the physiologi- 

 cal cell. Its life history is set before our eyes in the 

 animal organism. By union, organization, differentiation 

 of function and division of labor for the common weal, 

 this long-perfected animal organism has been developed. 

 But now, to carry its development forward and im- 

 mortalize the component cells, an onward step in organi- 

 zation is necessary. The human individual must be 

 made the unit of a greater system, even as the cell has 

 been the unit of the animal body. 



And this greater system of union, organization and 

 division of labor has already been initiated, unconsciously, 

 it may be said, on the part of mankind. For thousands 

 of years human beings have been banding together to this 

 very end, unconscious of the real purport of their effort ! 

 The personal ends which, individual!}', men have had in 

 view, as the motive of their labor, eventuate in a greater 



