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its corpuscular elements freely, is the next discovery most 

 needed in our quest for deathless life. 



Work along these two great lines is indicated with 

 certainty and is urgently demanded. The third most 

 promising line of effort lies in the husbandry of the 

 nervous system, per se, the intelligent cultivation of the 

 brain colony of cells. 



This is a wholly new line of effort, to which little or no 

 attention, in this sense, and from this point of view, has 

 ever been given. 



Education as we now obtain it is an exhaustive process, 

 pursued without regard to the life of the brain cell, 

 and, in truth, without recognition of its existence. 



In organic and in cellular old age, the cells of the brain 

 and spinal cord share at length and are borne down to 

 death, but as a rule, are the last to give up the struggle. 

 Soft and easily dissoluble as brain appears to be, it is yet 

 the most vitally resistant of tissues, perhaps because the 

 best protected and best nourished. Brain cells secure 

 nutriment from the blood-stream, while muscle cells, bone 

 cells, and gland cells starve. Intellect confers strength 

 and endurance. Here, as throughout nature, knowledge 

 brings an endowment of power. The brain colony is the 

 most enduring of cell unions. 



To begin with conditions easily recognized, it may be 

 stated, without metaphor, that after the age of thirty-five, 

 most persons, especially Americans of this generation, die 



