Essays on Life 



practice and the law courts ; touch evolution 

 and we are in another world ; not higher, not 

 lower, but different as harmony from counter- 

 point. As, however, in the most absolute 

 counterpoint there is still harmony, and in the 

 most absolute harmony still counterpoint, so 

 high philosophy should be still in touch with 

 common sense, and common sense with high 

 philosophy. 



The common-sense view of the matter to 

 people who are not over-curious and to whom 

 time is money, will be that a baby is not a 

 baby until it is born, and that when born it 

 should be born in wedlock. Nevertheless, as 

 a sop to high philosophy, every baby is allowed 

 to be the offspring of its father and mother. 



The high-philosophy view of the matter is 

 that every human being is still but a fresh 

 edition of the primordial cell with the latest 

 additions and corrections; there has been no 

 leap nor break in continuity anywhere ; the 

 man of to-day is the primordial cell of millions 

 of years ago as truly as he is the himself of 

 yesterday; he can only be denied to be the 

 one on grounds that will prove him not to be 



the other. Every one is both himself and all 



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