228 Natural Salvation. 



Nature's Proteus aud may be made to live a daj^ or a 

 millenium. 



For slowly,, over the stumbMng-blocks of many errors 

 and misleading hypotheses in the past, we have been 

 drawn to the conclusion, that although the tissue cell is 

 still seen to decline and die with the organism, there is 

 attainable for it an exceptionally well-nourished, well-pro- 

 tected condition where it may live on without time limit. 

 We mean by this that the alleviation of old age is now 

 more largely a question of regulating and controlling the 

 life of the organism — this larger personal life — than of 

 combatting intrinsic obstacles to long life in the cell, 

 itself ; that it is the organism rather than its component 

 cells which must be put in trim for longer life. What the 

 cell needs to insure its continuance in function and in 

 life, is stimulus from the organism as a whole, and that 

 atmosphere, or aura, of vitality, which pervades a healthy, 

 strong animal body ; that so long as these stimuli remain 

 constant and strong, and the cells are well nourished, 

 they are not of themselves the initiating factors of old age. 

 It is the whole life of the organism that quickens cell 

 life ; that is to say, the volume or sum total of cell life in 

 the animal body when well blended in a vital aura, seems 

 adequate to stimulate and maintain in healthy function 

 each individual cell of the vast union for much more than 

 a century. Blended together, these millions of cell lives 

 maintain a stable vital atmosphere, which sustains, invigo- 



