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dwells within the organism itself. That it does is one of the strongest points in our healing philosophy.

Long ago, in the early beginnings of life on this planet, that little protoplasmic form, the amoeba, had a natural desire for food. Impelled by this desire, it floated here and there, until it came in contact with the object of its desire, when it folded itself about that object, absorbed from it what it could assimilate, and released the balance. As time went on its desire grew stronger and its need for more varied food greater, so that instead of letting its prey go quickly it held on to it longer, so as to extract from it more sustenance. This resulted finally in a settled, permanent contraction which converted the flat surface of the amoeba into a tube-like formation, the first nucleus of a stomach.

But this stomach could not digest all that it had captured and held, for now it did not give up its prey, and how to get rid of the unused unavailable matter was the question in the amoebic mind. It did not think out the matter as we would do, but set to work to form ducts or channels that served as primitive bowels and kidneys. Later to supply its growing needs it formed the eyes, heart, lungs and other organs. Note that these organs owe their origin and growth to conscious action on the part of the creature projecting them. No matter how low the form of life, if it has any knowledge of external objects that knowledge may be termed consciousness, for to be conscious means simply to