Art and Science 



life of the world to come which he was to 

 enjoy hereafter. We all live for a while after 

 we are gone hence, but we are for the most 

 part stillborn, or at any rate die in infancy, as 

 regards that life which every age and country 

 has recognised as higher and truer than the 

 one of which we are now sentient. As the 

 life of the race is larger, longer, and in all re- 

 spects more to be considered than that of the 

 individual, so is the life we live in others 

 larger and more important than the one we 

 live in ourselves. This appears nowhere per- 

 haps more plainly than in the case of great 

 teachers, who often in the lives of their pupils 

 produce an effect that reaches far beyond any- 

 thing produced while their single lives were 

 yet unsupplemented by those other lives into 

 which they infused their own. 



Death to such people is the ending of a 

 short life, but it does not touch the life they 

 are already living in those whom they have 

 taught ; and happily, as none can know when 

 he shall die, so none can make sure that he 

 too shall not live long beyond the grave ; for 



the life after death is like money before it 



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