THE CELL-SOUL 



clianical processes in the soul-organs ; that these organs 

 are, like all other organs, composed of cells, and that 

 the functional activity of an organ is nothing more 

 than the sum of the activity of all the cells which 

 compose it ? Is this the same Virchow whose most 

 vital doctrine it was that all the physical and psychical 

 processes of the human organism were to be referred 

 to the mechanics of cell life ; who supported the view 

 of the unity of all the phenomena of life with the 

 same emphasis with which we are now obliged to 

 defend it against his attacks ? " 



In fact, and beyond a doubt, we have here a new 

 proof of Yirchow's complete change in all fundamental 

 scientific principles. For the cellular psychology 

 which I advance is only a necessary consequence of 

 the cellular physiology promulgated by Virchow. His 

 present opposition to the former is either a renuncia- 

 tion of the latter or an untenable and inconsequent 

 position. To explain this astonishing meta-psychosis, 

 we shall do well first to glance at the soul in general, 

 and then give particular consideration to the cell-soul. 



What is the Soul or Psyche ? The innumerable 

 different answers which have been given to this 

 crowning question of psychology, may collectively, 

 when freed from all extraneous matter, be brought 

 under two groups which we may shortly designate as 

 the dualistic and the monistic soul-hypothesis. Ac- 



