The Blue Germ

elt exhausted and could scarcely answer Sarakoff

coming of Immortality in the light of a physical boon to mankind. He seemed to see in his mind's eye a great picture of comfort

hole of Nature is beautiful to me, and a beautiful woman is Nature's best reward. Now that the dawn of Immorta

ll be some limit to

going to do away with the confining limits. Your imagination is too cramped! You sit t

l machinery in the mind that doubts golden ages and universal panaceas. Call it superstition if you will, but ma

t to a roar

ve, even faintly, of the change that will come over us towards the meaning of life. Can't you see that, as soon as the idea of Immortality gets hold of

nd made a calculation.

es towards Birmingham," he said, just as

my patients was a professor of engineering at a northern university; a brilliant young man, who, but for physical disease, had the promise of a great career before him. He had bee

view of your cas

, and he smiled. I suppose he detecte

difficult for me to grasp that view. I find that I behave as if nothing were the matter. I still go on working. I

n wor

ect only a short

surge of power came over me as I thought of the bacillus

eve in mirac

ime. "No, I don't think so. All one is taught n

ers a very small field-perhaps a

only a miracle w

and gaz

sed," he rema

, Mr. Thornduck.

case inte

e many maladies that we know to be fatal, while we remain ignorant of all else. Under ordinar

d t

u would begin to employ that large section of modern

theme, and clasped m

whose limitless corridors we medical men walk with weary footsteps. Ah, if only an intelligent group of scientists had had the construction of the human body to plan! Think what po

m with a curious uneasiness. For the moment I had forgotten what it had been my intention to say. The dawn o

on helps you

there is some meaning behind our particular inevit

he cruel caprice of Na

here is all the chance of activity we ever have? That I have a glimpse of engineering, and you

t be possible to take a

e theory of evolution-o

That is proved

to the body-to the instrument-and

t him in a

e is any immaterial

smi

ying view, surel

haps, but sound sc

ly-that's unsatisfying from the artist's point of view-I always know it's wrongly planned and inefficient. Don't you think i

I meant to hint to him that a miracle was going to happen, and save hi