for his guidance. If he consults his own chart and follows it he finds there are no collisions. His course is a true orbit, where all intruding matter is dissipated before it reaches him. His atmosphere burns it up, and renders it harmless. It is the crawfish who in his attempt to keep out of one orbit sidles into another and meets the comet’s fate -- disintegration and absorption.

This is a wonderful universe -- a one-verse. There is an orbit for every being and a being for every orbit. Every orbit is written on a heart, a soul, and may be found only by consulting that soul.

Look up at the stars -- just a conglomerate of bright spots. Surely if they moved a little there would be collisions. But look closer. They do move, at infinite pace, and there are no catastrophes. There is an order among them so perfect that it takes long study to appreciate it.

Now look at people -- a conglomeration of wriggling worms of the dust. But look more closely, dear. It will repay you, for human orbits are no less true than starry ones. The closer you get to human hearts the better you will understand their orbits. The closer you get to your own heart the nearer you will approach the hearts of others.

The more faithfully you follow the orbit written on your heart the surer you are to escape disaster.

Grow sensitive on the soul-side and know that your course is sure.

In Harper’s for November there is an interesting and significant article by Carl Snyder, upon “The Newest Conceptions of Life.” He says: “Physiology’s present answer to the old riddle is, very simply: Life is a series of fermentations.”

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He also says there is a destructive ferment, and, likewise, a constructive ferment, conditions alone governing, “When starch, or dextrine, is submitted to fermentation by the malt enzyme, it is hydrolized -- that is to say, split -- by taking up water into one of the simpler sugars, glucose. But if the resulting product is not removed, the action soon comes to a standstill. Add more starch, it will begin again; but add to the quantity of sugar, and the reverse process is begun; the glucose is converted into starch.