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 It may be said that matter has a soul, if by soul is understood the unorganized substance of the spiritual world that stands back of matter; and that plants have souls, if it is understood that they have an organization within formed from the substances of the spiritual world, and in degrees analogous to those of the material structure; and that animals have souls, if by the animal soul is understood an organization of spiritual substances within and superior to the material form and in degrees of spiritual substance analogous to those of the animal body. The primary difference between minerals, metals, plants, animals, and man is in the difference of the interior organizations of the spiritual counterparts, which receive life from the Creator according to their forms.

It may be observed that though man lives from the Creator because he has an interior, spiritual organization ascending in the sensitiveness of its substances until it is responsive to