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hension of each other. This strange 

 and, as it may seem, contradictory re- 

 lation depends on the fact that the 

 union between the soul and the cells 

 does not extend to their whole entity. 

 We have seen that the soul compre- 

 hended only the collective not the indi- 

 vidual wants of the cells. Within cer- 

 tain defined limits therefore they have 

 a common substance that causes their 

 marvelous co-operation through the 

 body. 



To understand and explain this co- 

 operation we must make clear how the 

 soul and the cells in their innermost 

 nature are united. And we shall learn 

 this by going to the bottom of the 

 meaning of the expression that a com- 

 mon substance so governs their rela- 

 tionship that the collective wants of 

 the cells become the individual wants 

 of the soul. 



How then are the soul and the cells 

 intrinsically connected? 



The answer may be derived in two 

 ways. We might take both the sub- 



