224 Natural Salvation. 



one of these cells, but came to an end, personally and in- 

 dividually, at fission. So that the declaration of Weiss- 

 mann and other biologists of that time, concerning the 

 immortality of the unicells, was erroneous from the start, 

 founded on faulty observation ; the fact being that a uni- 

 cell always dies, personally, when it gives birth to off- 

 spring by fission ; the profound break-up and reassembling 

 of the nuclear contents being equivalent to the obliteration 

 of the parent cell as an individual. 



But in accepting this grim conclusion, touching the 

 mortality of the unicells, those who had hoped that the 

 human organism may be perfected for greatly prolonged 

 life, looking toward immortal life, overlooked for a time 

 a most important fact, and failed to take cognizance of 

 what nature had itself been doing to alleviate these same 

 hard terrestrial conditions which cause death in unicellu- 

 lar life. We, failed to perceive that in every organism, 

 animal, or plant, a united, continuous effort is made to 

 render cell life easier and safer, to provide a better cell 

 food and secure more perfect nutrition, to eliminate 

 poisonous substances, and remove " dirt." 



We failed at first to comprehend that while in exposed, 

 unprotected unicellular life the individual could not live 

 for more than a few days or weeks at most, and was 

 obliged soon to resort to reproduction to escape race ex- 

 tinction, cells could be found in multicellular organiza- 

 tions, the brain of a man or an ele|)hant, for example, that 



