The Washington times., 1921-09-10
BIOGENETICS
Sermonet by g. b. 8.
Life I'm Perpetuity

Text-.Jer. Els, Behold, I set be-
fore You the way Of life and the way
Of DEATH"
MY plans to cease from this ser.
monixing role. are weekly frustrated
by some current event which carries
providential suggestion. This time
Il IL an article in the Literary Digest,
discussing a topic from the Journal
Of the American Medical Association,
whicS asks, why Do We DEF"
Some years ago my Christian sensi-
bilities were i.sockcd by an author
who advocated the feasibility OF
physical immortality. And from that.
q beautiful friendship" developed, in.
somuch, that, had he not died, his last
dollar would today be available for
our s. b. r. propaganda.
But this medical editor urges that
We might ever survive, in a way.
were we protozoons; yet. as humans,
we perish from complexity OF struc-
ture-the philosophy Of which postu-
plexness makes for pormanency and
rounded solidarity, where Natures
laws are not ignored and overridden.
Biometry we find IS practically In
separabie from Biogenesis.
Altho space forbids my celebrating
why We die, I can positively affirm
what 10 far better worth while, to-
wit: That I have learned the secret
of causing each succeeding genera
ton to greatly surpass its predeces.
sor In viability-and am free to con-
fess that I can detect no line Of
dcmarcation between this alluring
prospect and eventual Immortality in
the flesh! possess, Furthermore,
ofSSvaIA data 10 xlyo y-ra thta asfAnv1H.
Ing declaration - which, incidentally,
explains the origin of our familiar
S. B. r. slogan. MANS Infinite Poten.
tiaIitiesr'
1t Is the key to human perfecti-
bility-potentially perfection itself! 1t
Is a glorious fact of incompatible
import, dwarfing all other conceiv.
able discoveries!
For years now. I have quietly af.
firmed the approach Of a new, or
greatly modified. theology; yet no one
has cared ever to allude to this item.
A hazy foreshadowing of its outlines
are here disclosed.
And in the Digest, likewise, comes
the well-dissected query, is the
Public Hostile to Sciences" to which
can give most emphatic, categori-
cal answer-that the proposition Is a
plain fifty fifty csle Of human nature!
How absurd I'd suppose that an
ignorant farrier-tone Harvey by
name--should know anything about
an alleged circulation Of blood, when
his dense intellect couldn't even dis.
cern the sarcasm In the Latin and
Greek epithets which the naughty
bighbrows of his day hurled at him!
Or, again, note the jealousies in
war, which have outweighed patriot.
Ism, humanity, everything, lest a vol.
unteer Generals strategy should ex.
coed that Of a regular GRADUATED!
But to make the issue more per.
sonai and direct, take our own case
right here today: Were my mental
equipment floundering under the
handicaps Of sundry much-coveted
titles and degrees, as Is that Of the
average accredited scientist, a score
OF publishers would be actually com
peting for our wares-even though
they were permeated with but al
tifhe OF their present essential merit.
I have the most conclusive proofs
possible Of the accuracy Of all that
allese-hence this bold assurance.
Yet why must discoveries so often
emanate from such unwelcome
sourcesf And the eternal pity In
that IL causes 80 many milli0ns-in
the present case, surely--to need.
lcssly, yes. and criminally, TO perish!
How true the words Of Solomon:
The excellency of knowledge Is that
wisdom giveth life to them that
have It." STARKWEATHER BIO
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