170 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



faculties and talents. But in time he 

 cannot utilize them all. As a member 

 of society he devotes himself to a cer- 

 tain trade or profession. Now there 

 are thousands of different possible 

 activities and therefore thousands of 

 different talents that every man might 

 develop but never can, simply for lack 

 of time. Time is not even suflflcient to 

 fully develop one human talent in one 

 definite direction. Man has at his dis- 

 posal only the present moment, and in 

 each moment he can only think one 

 thought, perform one act, satisfy one 

 need. It is said that man should de- 

 velop all his faculties evenly, but so long 

 as he lives in time this is an impossi- 

 bility. As a matter of fact man can 

 only live this life piecemeal, and in this 

 time-existence proper we have the ex- 

 planation of the fact that man distrib- 

 utes his body over a series of cell-gen- 

 erations. 



The law of the indestructibility of 

 matter and energy is valid also in the 

 ideal world and this necessarily since 



