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within certain limits. Into each feeling 

 of want enters a comparison between 

 the possessed and the desired. In the 

 higher wants, then, that drive the cells 

 to upbuild man's organism we have a 

 manifestation of such a comparing 

 power of the cell. Experience shows 

 that the cell may live in a veritable 

 natural state, but it is also, because of 

 the presence of the soul in its inner- 

 most being, capable of a high culture 

 for the development of which it receives 

 constant impulses and stimulations 

 from the soul. 



In the same sense man may be said 

 to be the image of God. Living in the 

 world and the natural state, to which 

 he is confined by his relatively imper- 

 fect organism, man has the qualities of 

 God with corresponding limitations. 

 But even in this state he feels the spirit 

 of God present in him because he is an 

 original part of God's own organism. 

 In his conscience and in his religious 

 feeling man not only comprehends dis- 

 tinctly the presence of God in his inner 



