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belong to the soul's own entity. On the 

 other hand the soul in conceiving itself 

 cannot comprehend the cells as such 

 because the identity is not extended to 

 their whole individuality. 



When a being conceives the wants of 

 somebody else as its own wants it is at 

 the same time directly influenced by 

 the other. Thus the soul and the cells 

 act upon each other throughout the 

 body. A will of the soul takes with 

 natural necessity the form of a com- 

 mon impulse upon the cells bringing 

 them into action in the will's direction. 

 If the soul, for instance, wishes to 

 move an arm or a hand, a collective 

 want is simultaneously created in the 

 cells that form the organ in question 

 to execute that movement. 



We arrive at the same result by con- 

 sidering the fact that the different 

 wants of the soul and of the cells are 

 identical in substance. The same sub- 

 stance cannot enter into and define 

 different beings unless they themselves 

 enter in and define each other. As now 



