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is evident from what has been said in the previous chapter that the soul is a substantial, organized form. "Ex nihilo nihil fit," is wisely quoted against the doctrine that the world was made out of nothing. If from nothing nothing comes, causes that transcend the nature of matter can not come from nothing. They must originate in substance. Weismann, in his "Germ Plasm," and other scientists have ably proved that there are forces at work in the animal body superior to those ordinarily treated, which control the cell. For the same reason that there must be an invisible substance that permeates the germ cell and controls its particles and adjusts them, there must be a substance that permeates the aggregate of cells or the whole body, and regulates it. This organism, necessarily superior to matter, is the soul, the spiritual structure upon which