34 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



cause it may entirely change our con- 

 ception of death. With this question 

 settled, we should be in possession of a 

 fact from which we could draw reliable 

 conclusions, and this fact is briefly as 

 follows: Within each living being a con- 

 tinuous renovation takes place, a suc- 

 cessive replacing of the individuals 

 which belong to that being's spiritual 

 body. Human beings constitute, as al- 

 ready pointed out, the cells or the spir- 

 itual body, in an organism of a higher 

 order, viz., of humanity. In this organ- 

 ism, an incessant renewal takes place, 

 as we know, inasmuch as new genera- 

 tions continuously succeed each other. 

 The same is the case with man's own 

 spiritual body. As the human genera- 

 tions in the social body, so the cell- 

 generations in man's body replace each 

 other while the man, himself, all the 

 time, remains the identical individual. 

 The same holds good in regard to the 

 cytoplasm, or the lower units that 

 build up the cells. Everywhere we 

 meet with the same phenomenon of re- 



