AS TO OURSELVES 



ter, with such a great subject as animal 

 life, than to. begin with the simpler forms. 

 But there can be nothing in common be- 

 tween man and worms, except that both 

 have animal bodies. What we insist upon 

 is that nothing bodily accounts for per- 

 sonality. 



At the next stage in our ascent new 

 heights appear which overtop anything 

 yet encountered. So far man has been 

 content to keep company with his physical 

 senses, and when they grew weak to supply 

 them with divers inventions of his to help 

 them keep up with him. But now he pro- 

 poses to leave them all behind, because 

 they can only start him on his journey, 

 something like a convenient cab which 

 brings him to the railroad station. They 

 cannot also be to him like the express train 

 which is to transport him to some far-off 

 destination in the great continent of 

 knowledge. Ere long he will part with 

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