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told. It seems to me, on the contrary, that 

 the whole story is not thus told. I feel 

 the omnipresence of mystery in such wise 

 as to make it far easier for me to adopt the 

 view of Euripides, that what we call death 

 may be but the dawning of true knowledge 

 and of true life. The greatest philosopher 

 of modern times, the master and teacher 

 of all who shall study the process of evolu- 

 tion for many a day to come, holds that 

 the conscious soul is not the product of a 

 collocation of material particles, but is in 

 the deepest sense a divine effluence. Ac- 

 cording to Mr. Spencer, the divine energy 

 which is manifested throughout the know- 

 able universe is the same energy that wells 

 up in us as consciousness. Speaking for 

 myself, I can see no insuperable difficulty 

 in the notion that at some period in the 

 evolution of Humanity this divine spark 

 may have acquired sufficient concentration 

 and steadiness to survive the wreck of ma- 

 terial forms and endure forever. Such a 

 crowning wonder seems to me no more 



