. The science of eugenics and sex life, the regeneration of the human race ... n beauty and perfectionwith the marvelous construction of the human body. It seems difficult 56 LIFE-CENTERS. to realize that all this wonderful structure grows from a tiny cell, aseed, so that human life is in fact not altogether unlike that of thebeautiful plant-world with which we have already compared it. Notonly is the great sympathetic nervous system made up of minutenerve-cells, but were we to trace life back to its very beginning we should find a germ-cellwhich grows and burstsopen as does the flower-seed, s
. The science of eugenics and sex life, the regeneration of the human race ... n beauty and perfectionwith the marvelous construction of the human body. It seems difficult 56 LIFE-CENTERS. to realize that all this wonderful structure grows from a tiny cell, aseed, so that human life is in fact not altogether unlike that of thebeautiful plant-world with which we have already compared it. Notonly is the great sympathetic nervous system made up of minutenerve-cells, but were we to trace life back to its very beginning we should find a germ-cellwhich grows and burstsopen as does the flower-seed, sending forth stillsmaller cells; and withinthese we should find amass of infinitesimal,oval-shaped bodies withlong tails—curious livingbeings no larger than thepoint of a pin! To studythe history of these littlecreatures and learn whatbecomes of them in the*course of their travels isto understand, in some de-gree, the beginnings ofhuman life. We will takeup this important studyin due time, giving to eachportion its appropriatespace. Meanwhile, hav-ing found the four great.
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