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tend to show, is inseparably connected 

 with every particular cell-individual. 

 But in order to understand how the 

 cells may be at once independent of, 

 and yet intimately united with the 

 soul, we must first know what an or- 

 ganism really is. Its nature and funda- 

 mental idea is the only thing that can 

 explain this remarkable relationship. 

 But it is just here as to the essential 

 qualities of an organism that the con- 

 ceptions are generally very dim and 

 vague. 



Commonly the organism is thought 

 of as a very complicated mechanism 

 whose members and organs mutually 

 depend upon each other. The organ- 

 ism is what the word implies, a tool. 

 But every tool is intended for some- 

 body's use. Who this one is, is not 

 said, simply because it is considered 

 self-evident. If it be a human organ- 

 ism, it is obviously the man who uses 

 it; if it be an animal organism, it is 

 the animal, and so on. That this is a 

 truth, cannot be denied; but still it 



