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Show DEATH REIULT.OF EVOLUTION. . , . j Lawer Organisms' Come to Thel- End Only at Victims of Accident. j Death U not' a universal accompanl-went accompanl-went of life, writes Prof. Charles S. , Mlnot In the Popular Science Mouth ly. In the lower organisms death does not occur as a natural nml neccs' nary result of life. Death with thorn I is purely the result of an accideut, snno external cause. Natural death Is a thins which has been acquired In the process or evolution. Why should It have been acquired? You will, I think, readily answer thla question if you hold that the views which I have been bringing, before you have been well defended, by saying that it la due to differentiation, differentia-tion, that when the cells acquire the additional faculty of passing beyond tho simple stage of the more complicated compli-cated organization, they lose something some-thing of their vitality, something of their possibilities of perpetuation; and. ai the organization In tbe process of evolution becomes higher and hlgHer, this necessity for change becomes more and more Imperative. But It Involves In-volves the end. Differentiation leads up, as Its Inevitable conclusion, to death. Death is the price we are obliged to pay for our organization, for the differentiation existing In us. |