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take the place of two ; and yet the two cell substances do 

 not become confluent or coalesce ; they merely touch and 

 remain separate seats, or fountains of sentience ; it is the 

 two sentiences only which unite; as when two springs 

 which issue at points near together combine their waters 

 in one rill. The two cell lives combine in one stream, 

 but the cells themselves remain distinct, separate founts 

 of life. The tremendous significance of this fact is little 

 recognized or understood as yet. It subverts the present 

 theological doctrine of the human soul. It demonstrates 

 that the intellect of man, the human personality, is com- 

 posite and dissoluble. 



At the outset, however, certain hasty conclusions which 

 have sometimes misled investigators should be avoided. 

 The bodies of the higher animals are something more than 

 confederations of unicellular life ; that is to say, they have 

 not come directly from a banding together of cells that 

 once lived separately. The animal organism develops 

 from a single cell in the egg. All the millions of cells in 

 the various tissues issue forth, seriatim, from this one re- 

 productive cell, which seems to contain representative 

 particles, reproductive molecules, or "biophors," and 

 " determinants," corresponding to every tissue cell of the 

 parent organism. We have by no means sounded the 

 depths of this latter problem, as yet. One conjecture is, 

 that the entire animal organism, in corelation with its 

 generative tissue, fructifies in a species of sub-unicellular 



