I02 Natural Salvation. 



or psychons, if these terms may be used as names for the 

 most minute particles of matter of which we have knowl- 

 edge. In the cell we have several billions of ions — each 

 from its behavior a sentient particle — extensively organ- 

 ized to accomplish nutrition and reproduction. 



Incident to the sentient property of the ions, there is a 

 lowly degree of selfhood, or incipient personality; and 

 when the ions, or psychons, are organized in the cell, we 

 &nd, pari passu with the cell organization, a corresponding 

 bund of selfhood, evinced in the cell personality. 



It is from studies of the cell organization that we have 

 come at length to grasp the principle and raison d'etre of 

 all natural organization, namely to accomplish elevation 

 of the lowly sentience of unorganized matter to higher 

 degrees of sentience, having apparently as its ultimate 

 object and end, animal intelligence and those still higher 

 degrees of intellect displayed in the human brain. 



Nowhere do we find intelligence without organization 

 of the basic substance. The small mind of the cell exists 

 only by virtue of an orderly arrangement of its proto- 

 plasmic contents. This small self-conscious life presup- 

 poses organization. Only by means of organization is the 

 low basic sentience of unconditioned matter, the untrained 

 instinct-force of chaos, raised up to intelligence. 



Here is our master key to Nature : organization and 

 intelligence, rising hand in hand from elemental matter, 

 each dependent on the other, neither able to exist without 



