230 Natural Salvation. 



let or hindrance from external worlds. It has been an un- 

 aided, and, so far as the scientific evidence goes, an un- 

 vvatched, unprotected evolution from the lowly, primitive 

 sentience of matter. 



At what will it finally arrive ? 



Or, in the light of our growing knowledge, what can 

 we make of it ? 



This, at least, is fairly certain of it, that the continued 

 effort at natural salvation 'will remain our own, unhelped, 

 unhindered. If we can save ourselves from " sin " and 

 death, well and good. There seems to be liberty to do it 

 — a working chance for it ; and the question constantly 

 recurs, what can we do to this end, personally, individu- 

 ally, to forward the grand intent of life to natural salva- 

 tion ? What can we accomplish, or illustrate by personal 

 effort in our own organisms, in unison and harmony with 

 the cosmic push of life ? How shall we best labor and 

 throw the bent of our lives in consonance with it, con- 

 vinced that in thus squaring ourselves with the universal 

 trend and purpose of living matter, lies the only true 

 nirvana for individual life. 



Without further consideration we may put aside the 

 idea that anyone agency, "elixir," "gerum," or extract 

 from plant, or gland, will prove a cure for old-aging, 

 although these may help. " Old age " is a condition too 



