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that he can no more cut them off and grow 

 new ones, than he can grow new legs or 

 arms ; neither must he wound his solicitor ; a 

 wound in the solicitor is a very serious thing. 

 As for his bank failure of his bank's action 

 may be as fatal to a man as failure of his 

 heart. I have said nothing about the medical 

 or spiritual adviser, but most men grow into 

 the society that surrounds them by the help 

 of these four main tap-roots, and not only 

 into the world of humanity, but into the 

 universe at large. We can, indeed, grow 

 butchers, bakers, and greengrocers, almost ad 

 libitum, but these are low developments, and 

 correspond to skin, hair, or finger-nails. Those 

 of us again who are not highly enough organ- 

 ised to have grown a solicitor or banker can 

 generally repair the loss of whatever social or- 

 ganisation they may possess as freely as lizards 

 are said to grow new tails ; but this with the 

 higher social, as well as organic, developments 

 is only possible to a very limited extent. 



The doctrine of metempsychosis, or trans- 

 migration of souls a doctrine to which the 



foregoing considerations are for the most part 



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