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ceptions and man's understanding of 

 the exterior world in which he lives 

 and acts. The following stage com- 

 mences logically with the great ad- 

 vancement of the natural sciences. 

 Chemistry partly lifts the veil that 

 hides the innermost nature of matter, 

 and at the dawn of the new science the 

 old ideas concerning the nature of the 

 body disappear like the shadows of 

 night at the rising of the sun. 



A bodily resurrection on doomsday 

 is impossible because every dead body 

 sooner or later arises and takes part 

 in the circulation of matter, so that on 

 the day of judgment it might be found 

 that the same materials had entered 

 over and over again into the composi- 

 tion of a variety of human bodies. It 

 is also a fact that man changes his 

 material clothing several times even 

 during his earthly life. But the belief 

 in the essential value of the body is 

 too deeply rooted to give away entirely 

 and so we meet it again in the modern 

 materialism which perhaps may be said 



