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country devise methods and form habits of united effort, 

 to accomplish great ends. The first step to this is good- 

 fellowship, good_w ill one to anot her,-m.utuaLconfidence, 

 and a_determ ination to co operate. There is no other way. 

 Selfishn^sis retrogression. The way to enduring life is 

 through consecratioji,^of_selLto-Jtlie_common good. This 

 is the lesson from the cells. This is the method of nature. 

 By following this method, for example, multicellular man 

 may live eighteen thousand years. He may live forever. 



In unicellular life, no separate single cell, by any de- 

 vice, or husbandry of its life, could have lived a century^" 

 or a yeaF. It is only by union and self-consecration that 

 the long-lived organism has been developed- and the 

 neuron become a partaker in its longer life. And even so 

 in orgariizedrpeffected humanity the component individ- 

 uals will become macro-biotic. 



By united effort^ all are raised up to a higher plane of 

 life. Faulty and imperfect as it is, human civilization has 

 doubled the years of man. Tjtglve centuries ago the 

 average length of a human life in Europe was evidently 

 „ less than eighteen years. But compared with what science 

 could do with its present resources of knowledge, existent 

 civilization is but the most rudimentary of organizations. 

 The effort at an advanced civilization is barely inaugu- 

 rated, as yet. AH th e great resu lts are to com e^ 



The-Qiily_jobstacle is ignorance2_ignorantjdiatuistLigr^ 

 rant hatreds for creed s sake, or for race's sake ; fatuous 



