158 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



The connection is not difficult to un- 

 derstand. When the soul comprehends 

 the need of the stomach, it is the col- 

 lective want of the cells that comes 

 to expression as the individual want of 

 the soul. The different needs receive in 

 different form an identical substance 

 and this fact is obviously the connect- 

 ing link between the soul and the cells. 

 We might without difficulty carry out 

 the same reasoning in regard to res- 

 piration and all the other physiological 

 processes of the body. 



From what we have said it is evi- 

 dent that the soul and the cells em- 

 ploy the body differently; but for the 

 sake of clearness this ought perhaps 

 to be further accentuated. The differ- 

 ence may be thus expressed: The soul 

 acts with the members and organs of 

 the body as units, whereas the cells 

 perform the work of the organs as in- 

 dividuals. It would be easy to explain 

 what this implies if we could point to 

 similar conditions in human society. 

 But no exactly similar institutions ex- 



