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of his existence, he has slowly accumulated and 

 organised the experience which is almost wholly 

 lost with the cessation of every individual life in 

 other animals ; so that, now, he stands raised upon 

 it as on a mountain top, far above the level of his 

 humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser 

 nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the 

 infinite source of truth. 



