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soul over death, and then its intrinsic imperishable- 

 ness from any cause. 



Surely, if each soul, so far from being the result 

 of temporal antecedents or being the simple aggre- 

 gate of its various experiences, gives evidence of a 

 self-activity that conditions not only all actual but 

 also all possible experience, then each of us must 

 possess an existence that subsists independently of 

 any and every contingent event, including the event 

 of death no less than the various events of life. For 

 what, upon the now proved time-giving nature of 

 our real self, is the great event called death ? It 

 may well be described, to borrow the language of 

 the geometers, as a singular point on the curve 

 of our experimental being, a point where a given 

 stage or mode of our experience, or sensible con- 

 sciousness, comes to its cessation and close. But 

 not only is it no longer what the same geometers 

 call a point d' arret, where the curve comes to a 

 sudden end ; it is, rather, from our now established 

 coign of vantage, ^ point of transition, where the curve 

 undergoes a change in the expression of that con- 

 tinuity which has its unchangeable form summed 

 up in the equation stating its essential nature and 

 law of being — the self-definition of the individual. 



This result follows, clearly enough, from the single 

 fact that our personality is the source of Time, and 

 that Time is the all-inclusive condition of the occur- 



