Art and Science 



above, the phenomena of life predominate so 

 powerfully over those of death, that the people 

 themselves must be held to be more alive than 

 dead. Our living personality is, as the word 

 implies, only our mask, and those who still own 

 such a mask as I have supposed have a living 

 personality. Granted again that the case just 

 put is an extreme one ; still many a man and 

 many a woman has so stamped him or herself 

 on his work that, though we would gladly 

 have the aid of such accessories as we doubt- 

 less presently shall have to the livingness of 

 our great dead, we can see them very suffi- 

 ciently through the master pieces they have 

 left us. 



As for their own unconsciousness I do not 

 deny it. The life of the embryo was uncon- 

 scious before birth, and so is the life I am 

 speaking only of the life revealed to us by 

 natural religion after death. But as the 

 embryonic and infant life of which we were 

 unconscious was the most potent factor in our 

 after life of consciousness, so the effect which 

 we may unconsciously produce in others after 

 death, and it may be even before it on those 



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