136 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



expresses only half the truth and 

 scarcely that. Every organic body is 

 used directly by the individuals that 

 form its building material. The human 

 organism is a society of cells, and it is 

 these latter that first of all use the 

 body's organs for their purposes. But 

 so dominating are the old ideas about 

 the body, that even the cytologists 

 themselves have not been able to shake 

 them off. The cells are continually 

 studied from man's point of view, but 

 what man may be from the eelVs point of 

 view is never thought of. 



We do not hereby deny all justifica- 

 tion to the old conception. The body 

 is also an organ for the soul. The lat- 

 ter, as experience shows, uses the body 

 for its own specific purposes. But this 

 takes place only to a somewhat limited 

 extent. The incomparably larger part 

 of the soul's work, cares, and endeav- 

 ors, is devoted to finding means to 

 satisfy bodily wants. But so far as the 

 soul provides for the necessities of the 

 body, it acts as organ for the cells. 



