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burden they impose : " the practical test of a perfect 

 philosophy is, when one by the height of his specula- 

 tion is so far withdrawn from bodily things as hardly 

 to feel pain. And there is greater virtue, as we believe, 

 in one who has come to such a point as not to feel 

 pain at all than in another who feels it but resists. 

 He who is more deeply moved by the thought of some 

 other thing does not feel the pangs of death." l 



Sig. Sig. (ii. 2. 192." 



