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which it dwells, we are able to judge, 

 from the wonderful perfectness of the 

 organisms built by cells, that they have 

 reached in their world and measured 

 by their power a higher state of de- 

 velopment than man. It is not only 

 possible but highly probable that the 

 human individuals will sometime build 

 an organism of the same perfectness, 

 but as yet they have not done so. The 

 cells have long ago passed the stage 

 of organization that characterizes hu- 

 man society at present. 



From the fact that the first purpose 

 of every organic structure is to serve 

 the individuals of which it is composed, 

 it follows that nobody, except these 

 same individuals, can build the organ- 

 ism in question. Independently the 

 cells build the human body here in 

 time and they must do the same in the 

 future life. The organism cannot exist 

 in other surroundings than those for 

 which its organs are adapted. But this 

 adaptation can only be effected by the 

 individuals that form the building ma- 



