30 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



yet each and every one of them not 

 only possesses individual life, but also 

 the organs necessary for sustaining in- 

 dividual existence. Innumerable quan- 

 tities of such tiny beings build up the 

 organisms of plants and animals. As 

 human individuals form the building 

 material of the body of a community, 

 so the cells form the building material 

 of the bodies of plants and animals. 

 Since the cells bear the same relation 

 to plants and animals as human in- 

 dividuals to a community, every plant 

 and animal then may be considered as 

 a community, a cell-state, where the 

 cells are the citizens. 



Every organism, therefore, is a com- 

 munity, and vice versa, every community is 

 an organism. So far as we have knowl- 

 edge of the organisms they are all simi- 

 lar in this respect. Plants and animals 

 are communities of individually living 

 cells in the same sense as nations and 

 states are communities of human beings. 

 The individuals in these different com- 

 munities are of different kinds and 



