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permanent endowments. The one class of properties 

 remains permanently attached to the elements of matter ; 

 the other may be once removed, but can never be restored. 

 The material properties belong to the matter, whether living 

 or dead ; but where are the vital properties in the dead 

 material? If physicists and chemists would restore to life 

 that which is dead, we should all believe in the doctrine 

 they teach. So long as they tell us their investigations only 

 tend towards such a consummation, they must expect a few 

 to be wanting in faith. 



" You may bury me as you choose, if you can only catch me. 

 But you will not understand me when I tell you that I, Socrates, 

 who am now speaking, shall not remain with you after having drunk 

 the poison, but shall depart to some of the enjoyments of the blest. 

 You must not talk about burying or burning Socrates, as if I were 

 suffering some terrible operation. Such language is inauspicious and 

 depressing to our minds. Keep up your courage and talk only of 

 burying the body of Socrates ; conduct the burial as you think best, 

 and most decent. "Plato, Phcedon, p. 115, C-D. ; Grate's Plato, 

 vol. //., p. 193. 



