The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

@th~ac&ideident. Altltough the ihtcrvening ti= till he.regained ~onsciousness has been days and -some-, times even weeks, yet to Ilim it has been a perfectblank. Why is; this? Where was the mah's soul_ during the interval ? Why couid it not recollectevents after the accident if it is -independent ofthe body? Surely it is quite evident that the. soulis dependent on organism.But what .about the spirit? Is'it a bein* insjde,of us ? Science has not found any such being. I lieonlyspirit that Scieiice recognises is the spirit orpower of life. Formerly ,it was .thouglif that liferesided in some particular part of the body, butnow,thanks. to Profess+- Virchow, we know thatthe body is composed of innutllerable cells, andthat the spirit or power of life animates every oneof them. We know, also, that this power of life isdependent on certain continual processes of wasteaiid repair.3.Cy finger, for example, is camposed of manycells in eacli of which is the spirit or'pawer-of life. and. this life is dependent on processes of m7asteand repair., If these processes become deranged'' there is disease, if they cease there is death: 1.finger is dead, aild in course of time shrivels upaEd drops off. When my finger dies, what becolnesof tlie spirit of life ?We understand that the death of my finger andalso of my whole body simply means the cessationof the life-processes, of waste ancl repair. It is thesame in the case of the lower animals and of plants.the^ also are composed of hnufierable cells ineacli of which is tlie spirit or power of life, and thispow& of life is dependent on similar processes of. -waste - and repair. . We do Uoi understand that their5 .