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individuals; from the point of view of 

 the whole again it is a living individual 

 of higher order than the individuals 

 that form its social side. Man is a cell 

 in the social bodv, but is himself com- 

 posed of lower individuals, which again 

 consist of more primary units. 



Man, considered as being possessed 

 of a body, is an individual composed of 

 lower individuals. 



We now ask the question: What is 

 the relation between the higher indi- 

 vidual and the lower ones? This is 

 only another and more exact form of 

 the question: What is the relation be- 

 tween the soul and the body? Be- 

 cause, what is the body and what is 

 the soul? The body is the sum of the 

 lower individuals, or, in other words, 

 it is the organized mass of cells. The 

 soul, as the feeling, thinking and will- 

 ing principle, is the real spiritual unity 

 in this mass, or just what we denote 

 by the word man, or the higher in- 

 dividual. To ask, what is the relation- 

 ship between the higher individual and 



