20O Natural Salvation. 



theory that the cells of all the tissues are slowly im- 

 pregnated, embarrassed, and killed out by invisible 

 dirt particles which are ingested with our food, 

 enter the blood plasma, and finally reach the cell by 

 absorption. 



Dirt, which has been well defined as " matter in the 

 wrong place," is commonly suppose^ to be a molar condi- 

 tion of terrestrial matter which does not prevail nor exist 

 in the molecular realm. Hence, by virtue of this molec- 

 ular exclusion and the elective power of living matter to 

 choose and select such particles as it pleases for its nutri- 

 tion, the protoplasmic cell has been presumed to be' in the 

 " chemically pure " state. There is reason to fear, how- 

 ever, that such an assumption is gratuitous and far from 

 accurate. 



Only a microscopist knows the full bitterness of the 

 life struggle with dirt. It is doubtful whether even a gas 

 can be, or at least has been, generated chemically pure, so 

 omnipresent is dirt. Dirt is Nature's heterodoxy. 



The animal organism is a great destroyer of dirt ; that 

 is to say, the various ferments and "juices," which it is- 

 the life work of many groups of the somatic cells to se- 

 crete, act chemically on dirt as well as on true food, on 

 innutritious as well as nutritious substances, to break 

 them down to the elemental condition. Having passed 

 the digestive tract, too, and entered the blood plasma, still 

 further reduction and elimination take place, before the 



