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Fifty years of such organized effort would usher in 

 achievements even to predict which would now be thought 

 visionary. Fifty years of confraternal endeavor would so 

 perfect locomotion and transportation that journeying to 

 any portion of the globe could be accomplished in from 

 three to five days, accomplished in ease and comfort, and 

 with a fair degree of safety. 



This of itself would be the first and best step to effac- 

 ing the ancient antipathies of race and religion. The 

 formula for introducing the Golden Rule among men 

 is intercommunication versus ancient isolation. 



Within fifty years, perhaps much less, we might come 

 to understand the internal economy of the cell-of-life, and 

 might master the problems of its reproduction. These 

 problems are already outlined ; but we are still ignorant 

 why the somatic cells wax and wane, from youth to age ; 

 or more explicitly, what charge of ions, " biophors," or 

 " gemmules " is concentrated in the cells of the germ- 

 plasm ; how this marvelous recharging of life from genera- 

 tion to generation is accomplished ; why the commingling 

 of cells from the two sexes is advantageous, or requisite ; 

 and, in general, the nature, chemical composition and 

 mode of production of these minute germ elements of the 

 organic tissues. 



These are* studies and discoveries which urgently wait 

 the scrutiny of earnest, well-equipped students of our sci- 

 ence. That they are beyond human discovery might have 



