Christianity -- Controversial literature; Free thought
The cells arrange themselves in the embryo in the form of a human being
by their own will. “They use the materials which are at hand,
fabricating organs for themselves by instinct, and in the appointed hour
are born in the shape which they have formed for themselves.”—Enoch, ch.
14. The human embryo in its development passes through all the forms
through which the race has struggled in its evolution from stone,
through the primordial cell, the worm, the fish, the saurian and
gorilla. In the last stage, that of the gorilla, the embryo is entirely
covered with hair like our beloved ancestors, and sometimes development
is arrested at this point and a hairy child is born occasionally with a
tail.
The scientists have discovered in the cell body a god more potent than
any known deity and have named it centrosome. It is a being of stellar
form, located just above the nucleus or nerve centre of the cell. It is
a creator whose magic far excels the feats of gods or men. It divides
one living being into two, splitting the brain and the body of the cell
in halves in such a manner that the two individuals produced are the
exact duplicates of the parent cell in form and character. The cell
brain matter, called cromatin, is composed of strings of very minute
granules, termed cromosome, which are supposed to contain all the
hereditary traits. The division of each one of these cromosomes into
equal halves gives to the individuals produced a similar character. The
centrosome is one in the beginning, but before dividing the cell it
divides itself into two persons, so that one of the centrosomes may
accompany each of the two cells. Each centrosome seizes one half of the
brain of the parent cell thus divided and draws it to one side of the
cell to form the nucleus of one of the new cells. Then the whole body of
the cell is divided in the centre.—Story of the Living Machine, 100.
When the centrosome divides the cell, two cells are produced capable of
reproducing themselves in like manner. Prof. A. Dastre says that “under
suitable circumstances the lowest animated forms are immortal.”
Our soul is formed by the combination of the souls of the two germ cells
from which the embryo originated. We existed in our parents prior to our
advent here and in all of our ancestors for 500,000,000 years back, more
or less. The conscious matter that constitutes me, the cromatin, existed
in every one of my ancestors since we were washed out of the igneous
rocks or spawned in the ocean depths. Jack London says: “I did not begin
when I was born. I have been growing, developing through incalculable
myriads of milleniums. All these experiences of all these lives and of
countless other lives have gone to the making of the soul-stuff that is
I.”
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