xiv THE ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER
that, while the ferments of cancer came into existence in the
dim and distant past in an ascending series of complexity, for the purpose of
building-up asexual generation, trypsin and its modification, amylopsin, were
evolved millions of years ago as things even more powerful than the ferments of
cancer, and for the primary purpose of pulling down asexual generation,
in order that something new—a sexual generation——might arise, blossom, and
people the earth. That these latter ferments have also a very great digestive
import, and are, therefore— to man, as the centre of the universe—of personal
and even great commercial value, happens to be a corollary to what was their
original use, and to the uses which they are still first of all given by Nature
in every normal development.
Each one of us human beings, in the course of the
gestation in which he or she arose, as a prime condition of his or her
existence and persistence, was compelled by the iron necessity of Nature to
destroy a natural phenomenon of the same nature as cancer—to wit, the trophoblast
or asexual generation of normal development—and by no other means than the
secretion of pancreatic ferments. This is the reason which confers a lasting
truth on the words which I wrote down on December 8, 1904, and which,
almost immediately, gave the solution of the problem of cancer—” The mammalian
embryo solved the problem of cancer ages ago.’ “ Still it moves,” commented
Galileo. If the enzyme treatment of cancer be abandoned for the next century—if
trypsin and amylopsin be maligned as “ useless “ or “ futile in cancer— all
the same every human being who comes into this world in that time will never
omit to employ his own pancreatic ferments in his development—never fail, since
failure means death, to use the pancreatic or enzyme