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shown that the human material body is an organism of successive degrees operated by a spiritual body within, and that the spiritual body is composed of a like series of degrees ascending to the Creator by whom it is actuated and vivified, we may now pass on to consider those forms possessed of life in some degree, yet which have not such an organized soul as man has.

It would naturally be suggested that though the existence of such a soul, ascending by more delicate and complex structures to receive vitality from the Creator, accounts for the vital force in man, the vital forces in plants and lower animals are still unexplained; and if plants and lower animals can be vivified without a soul, why can not man likewise receive life? Plants and animals have not souls like those of man. If they