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to use the same organ. Every partic- 

 ular individual requires the assistance 

 of all the organs and must therefore 

 stand in such relation to them all that 

 he can utilize the work of any one. 

 But he himself enters as a working 

 member only in one organ, whose work 

 is the only one he can immediately 

 press into his service, and even this 

 only in certain cases. All other organs 

 stand in more or less distant relation 

 to him. How, then, will he be able to 

 utilize them? Only so that the organs 

 make themselves present in his own 

 organ, and, so to speak, reach him their 

 different products. Like every citizen 

 in a community, each organ ought to 

 have a system of circulation through- 

 out all the other organs to transfer the 

 results of its work where it is needed. 

 If, however, each organ were provided 

 with such a distribution agency this 

 would be an extravagance inconsistent 

 with the concentration of forces that 

 the very idea of an organism implies. 

 Instead of many such systems we find 



