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that our own bodies contain resemblances to ancestors 

 enormously remote in time, simply because they con- 

 tain atoms from the bodies of those very ancestors 

 living again in ourselves, we can understand how in 

 a future, whether near or enormously remote, atoms 

 from the very body of the man that dies may be 

 called into a renewed existence, and clothed again with 

 all that is necessary to personal identity, though haply 

 more transformed and higher raised above the old self, 

 than would be an orang-outang or a naked savage, 

 were either of these enabled to combine the chivalric 

 courtesy of Sir Philip Sydney with the genius of 

 Sophocles and Shakespeare. 



