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newal and everywhere with the same 

 identity of the complex individual. This 

 latter originates, develops, and passes 

 away with a lifetime that bears a cer- 

 tain proportion to its complexity. While 

 man counts his existence and develop- 

 ment in years, the evolution of society 

 is reckoned in hundreds and thousands 

 of years. The cells in their turn have 

 a lifetime measured in days, and the 

 units forming the cytoplasm possess 

 an individual existence perhaps lasting 

 but a few minutes or seconds. 



The circulation in the body, there- 

 fore, is not confined to the material 

 particles but comprises the spiritual 

 body, the living units, as well. Now, 

 the question is: What is the relation- 

 ship between man living in time and 

 these dying and unborn generations of 

 cells, that form his body? Can we show 

 that these living units, this spiritual 

 body, is as necessary for man in a fu- 

 ture existence as here in time? Then 

 death must evidently be something else, 

 something infinitely more than we have 



