17^ Human Personality. 



molecules, and you have indubitably lost your cell soul ; it 

 has sunk back to the basic sentience of universal matter. 

 That the ghost of it goes floating about the universe is 

 contrary to everything we know of, nature ; for nature 

 produces degrees of intelligence only by complex com- 

 binations. 



The human organism differs from the cell only in being 

 larger and more varied; since it is composed of cells 

 organized, cooperative, and consentient. In a general way, 

 the human organism is to the cell what the city or the 

 nation is to the individual citizen. In the organism we 

 have a more voluminous life than that of the cell, but life 

 of the same character and quality. The cell is an epitome 

 of the human body, the body an organized multiple of the 

 cell; the cell sentience is the essential unit of the human 

 life, and, indeed, of all terrestrial life. A human life is, 

 therefore, the consentient product of the cell lives of 

 which the organism is made up. 



In the course of these long organizations of cell life, 

 sense organs and apparatuses have developed which put 

 the consentient colony or mass of brain cells in wide, 

 extended communication with the external world, in touch 

 largely with the universe, with the result that this person- 

 alized mass of living matter becomes the recipient and 

 repository of sensations and impressions of all sorts from 

 all quarters. In a word, it is made the repository of 

 knowledge, and while thus receiving and recording, be- 



