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uality continues, altho he passes 

 from one kingdom into the next. 

 The dictum of science is "no 

 leap, no break" — continuity. 

 Then it is reasonable to believe 

 that the individuality will con- 

 tinue through succeeding future 

 changes, as it has continued these 

 millions of years through the suc- 

 cessive past changes. It would 

 require much credulity to believe 

 that nature has travailed in pain 

 these untold ages to develop a 

 personality that would of its own 

 free-will choose goodness, only to 

 destroy that personality as soon 

 as made. John Fiske has well 

 said : * " The materialistic as- 

 sumption that . . . the life of the 

 soul . . . ends with the life of 

 the body, is perhaps the most 

 colossal instance of assumption 

 that is known in the history of 

 philosophy." 



*"Tlie Destiny of Man," p. 110. 

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