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Organic structure shows everywhere 

 the same general qualities, the same 

 fundamental features. Each higher and 

 more complex organism repeats in a 

 more perfect way and in a higher po- 

 tency exactly the same general forms 

 of organization as its elementary con- 

 stituents have shown in their own 

 sphere. Hence the surprising simi- 

 larity in the structure of the organisms. 

 When we know one we know all. This 

 would, of course, be neither possible nor 

 conceivable if the spiritual bodies, 

 which form their corporal structure, 

 did not possess corresponding similar 

 fundamental qualities. 



In what relationship do these cells 

 stand to man? Do they enter into his 

 being as essential or only as incidental 

 constituents? In other words, does man 

 act as organ for the cells and the cells 

 as organs for man only here in time; or, 

 such existence being for the present 

 postulated, is their union extended 

 even to a future existence? This ques- 

 tion is of extraordinary importance be- 



