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fact, that for Hegel dissolution and death are mere signs of the im 

 perfect correspondence of the natural organism to its true con 

 cept. According to his thinking, a perfect man could never die 

 except as a sheer accident. That the very conception of the 

 organism should include a complete life-process, that death should 

 be as normal as birth, he could not contemplate. 



