SPECK THAT GROWS INTO A MAN.

Mataura Ensign, 24 July 1914, Page 4

SPECK THAT GROWS INTO A MAN.

AVhat is a ,human being? AVe begin with a single'cell—a thing so small that millions could lie bu' a pbnny. Here, surely, must be'the very beginning of things; purely there can be nothing further back than , this? But that invisible ceil has a history in evolution beside which the history of the human race is as the twinkling of an eve. This simple cell (the "Children's Magazine" telk u-) has within it a marvellous system which has been compared with the inside of an oce»ni liner. And this single cell, with all t'he potentiality of life within it, divides itself into two; and as it divides it gives to each part of itself the whole, of its power of division and development. It i.s as if a watch had tho power to divide itself into two watches, each watch complete in itself, working perfectly in all its complex parts, and as if these . two watelicG then made four, and these four made eight, and eo tho multiplication went on until tile watches-had become greater in number than all the. watches now in the world.

Such is the amazing process awaiting the living cell which is <o become a rose, a fish, a. tiger, or a- man; far any one of these is a /stupendous host of epccklike, cells, which have grown from a single speck, with sneli unthinkable purpose and exactness- that some speck,? have gone to form i hand, some the blood that gives us life, some the nerves that feel heat, or the other nerves that feel cold; some have gone to form a foot, some the bony framework, some the flesh of the face, some the. heart that feels, some the. brain that thinks, some the tongue that speaks; and as this process of growth goes on there invisible builders of a human being make no mistake, so that not once in a 'hundred million times does anything, go wrong.