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ceives its own ego in want of one 

 thing or other. The feeling of discom- 

 fort, accompanying the want, naturally 

 causes the endeavor to satisfy the 

 want through a corresponding effort. 

 The incitement to activity then is 

 purely spiritual. Are the soul of man 

 and the cells subject to such common 

 needs, requiring their co-operation? If 

 so, at least their wants or appetites 

 cannot be wholly congruous. Such are 

 only to be found in entirely similar 

 beings. But different wants are satis- 

 fled in different ways; each requires a 

 carefully adapted form of activity. All 

 direct, immediate co-operation of the 

 soul and the cells is therefore impos- 

 sible. Only man with man, or cell with 

 cell, can co-operate in the primary sense 

 of the word. 



But an indirect working alliance is 

 not yet precluded. Though themselves 

 different, the two beings may compre- 

 hend wants identical in substance, but 

 not in form. The formal discrepancy 

 would require not only different modes 



