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 had, they would have been human beings from the beginning, for the soul makes the material body a counterpart after its own form. Yet, though they have not human souls, they have a counterpart within formed from spiritual substance. It should be recalled that material substance in general is the body of which the spiritual world is the soul, as was shown previously. Unorganized matter is, as it were, a gross excrescence of the spiritual world whose substances are immediately back of matter, and which by their forces perpetually hold it forth and in form. Indeed, such is the relation between the spiritual substance back of matter and matter itself that, were the spiritual removed, the material could not exist.

Minerals, plants, and animals differ in their material organization. Mineral, in the geological sense, may be considered to be simply unorganized matter, though technically any form of matter other than an elementary substance in its primordial purity might be thought of as an organized body. Metals, crystals, and the like are