Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-20

imal. It has been changing through thou
sands or years under his hand into O true.
| ever-improving tool The grass ripens into
corn Tor him. the creeper of the primeval
Iorest bears grapes for him. the rough.
ssnaraed forest tree chances into a fruit
unued for still more thousands OF years
| every blossom. every fruit, every tree form
on earth Will be so thoroughly the work OF
man that one can hardly call IL a CON
| quest OF man any more. The plant will
| simply have been made part of the human
world: far different achievement from
that OF destroying the monsters
last look. now, into the water There
In the depths still live whole families and
races-the prickle skins the sea stars
sponges; poiyps. worms and others. all rep
| resented by myriads of individuals With
out question the actual mastery of the deep
sea by man is only in its beginning.
Beginning to Win the Sea.
But 1t begins so thoroughly that there can
| De no doubt about his victory there eithsr.
Inc great sea mammals like the whale
learned mans power first. A similar war
OF extinction was begun against certain
useful fishes, like the herring although
man has now assumed the more ideal posi-
! ton OF ruling by propagating them. The
oyster has been changed into a domestic
animal. as was the bee thousands OF years
earlier. Gradually all civilized coasts will
will reach into the sea and yoke the salt
waters to his work.
True. the coast is not the high sea, not
.he ABYSS or the deep water. But over the
ABYSS our steamships glide In a thousand
directions. And the same century that
built the first steamship. that measured the
ocean chasms for the same time and dis
covered the fairy-like animal life down
there. Is forcing culture into the depths.
through the under-seas our telegraph ca
Dies wind like enormous sea snakes. In
the coming century the submarine boats
Will follow. 1T all hurls itself along with
express speed in which there is no more
pause. Man. master of the water as he Is
OF the land-master of all multi-celled or
ganlsms. master of all his ancestors down
to that lost gastrea, the first stomach. deep
down in the water as in the light on the
earth.
And in the midst of this full triumph-an
appalling discovery! Our most hideous liy-
ing foe has been unknown to us until within
the past decade.
The Last Act of World Drama
1t is no other than the last act of that
great drama that began many thousands
of years ago when the young creature man.
faced the world primeval filled with ter
tiary and diluvial monsters, and had to
answer the question to what he was go
ing to do.
Three acts-and man had settled with all
his multi-celled ancestors. cousins and
uncles. Now. in the fourth act. the whole
mass of life has been subjugated with the
exception of this last corner. And this cor
ner is the world of the bacillus the sim
pie prmordal form of all life.
This last battle is so colossal. so much
more immense than all the rest. that 1t is
by far the most important in the history
of the world. we are in 1t now. But how
long will 1t last? And is 1t at all certain
who will be the victor?
The attack Of the bacli is monster at
tanlYn ,f,ofS xyfr1H ar,fC oil
VIII man win it?
The problem is stated clearly: colossal
cell-community. man., .O,0O,OO of such
cell-communities on the whole earth-fghts
desperately against myriads of individual
cells that want to pour into his community,
| feed on it and produce poisons to kill it.
Now, what does the present phase of our
meteorological knowledge signify?
1t signifies that the war finally has en-
tered a field wherein our cell-communities
find new resort.
Cell Against Cell.
The brain, the thought cells, have entered
the fight. In that part of our cel-commu-
nifty nothing was known of the battle be-
tween bacillus and man until recently. Vast
armies of cells in the human body have
fought since the days of the first man.
against the inimical disease and pest cells
But the brain cells of humanity took no
part in the war.
Now, the brain cells have produced
science" In a circle of thought the cell
itself is discovered by the brain cell. Then
the bacillus is discovered. Its deadly work
is recognized The counter effects OF the
cells of the human cell community are per-
ceived There follows the decision to reach
down into the dark battle.
The brain cells establish themselves at
last as the allies Of the other fighting cells
with their whole titanic power, with their
memory" with their reading eye." that
make possible study reaching back thou
sands of years.
That Is the new situation.
Not the small single results here and
there will decide the battle. The brain cells
may err again and often again about the
bacillus and it's poison In individual cases.
They may beat the empty air many times.
But the decisive thing is that they have
entered the fight! They have discovered.
They seek no more in visions for explana-
ton of what is happening in their own cell
community. The brain cells have become
battle allies, instead of dreamers that Of
fered burned sacrifice or cursed comet
while the other cells fought desperately. but
blindly, for the existence of the whole cell
community.
so mighty. tremendous I'm its import. that
in the light of human knowledge it may be
said: Eyes. now man will be the victori"
1t is the last fight for the mastery by man
of the realm of life. 1t is the ''finis'' of
world epoch.
Only beyond that final victory can the
true age of man begin. Then the last rend-
ing eagle of Prometheus will have been
killed.
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