CHAPTER VIII. 

 The Soul and the Cells. 



LIVING beings are alive because the 

 very substance in them is living. 

 Life belongs to this substance exactly 

 as materiality belongs to matter. As 

 living substance can exist only in the 

 form of living individuals, all living 

 beings fall outside the limitations of 

 time and possess individual immortal- 

 ity without exception. The cell, there- 

 fore, is as immortal as man. But if this 

 is the case, the fact that the duration 

 of the earthly life of man is different 

 from that of the cell must now at last 

 appear in its full significance. During 

 man's life a series of cell-generations 

 have lived, acted and disappeared, al- 

 though the phenomenon here, as in the 

 body of society, passes comparatively 

 unnoticed because the cell is invisible 

 to the naked eye. Of course we ob- 



