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of things, in virtue of which some, whether 

 they will it and know it or no, are more likely 

 to live after death than others, and who are 

 these? Those who aimed at it as by some 

 great thing that they would do to make them 

 famous ? Those who have lived most in 

 themselves and for themselves, or those who 

 have been most ensouled consciously, but per- 

 haps better unconsciously, directly but more 

 often indirectly, by the most living souls past 

 and present that have flitted near them ? Can 

 we think of a man or woman who grips us 

 firmly, at the thought of whom we kindle 

 when we are alone in our honest daw's plumes, 

 with none to admire or shrug his shoulders, 

 can we think of one such, the secret of whose 

 power does not lie in the charm of his or her 

 personality that is to say, in the wideness of 

 his or her sympathy with, and therefore life 

 in and communion with other people ? In the 

 wreckage that comes ashore from the sea of 

 time there is much tinsel stuff that we must 

 preserve and study if we would know our own 

 times and people ; granted that many a dead 

 charlatan lives long and enters largely and 



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