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his direct ancestors and descendants as well ; 

 therefore, if we would be logical, he is one 

 also with all his cousins, no matter how dis- 

 tant, for he and they are alike identical with 

 the primordial cell, and we have already noted 

 it as an axiom that things which are identical 

 with the same are identical with one another. 

 This is practically making him one with all 

 living things, whether animal or vegetable, 

 that ever have existed or ever will something 

 of all which may have been in the mind of 

 Sophocles when he wrote : 



" Nor seest thou yet the gathering hosts of ill 

 That shall en-one thee both with thine own self 

 And with thine offspring/' 



And all this has come of admitting that a 

 man may be the same person for two days 

 running ! As for sopping common sense it 

 will be enough to say that these remarks are 

 to be taken in a strictly scientific sense, and 

 have no appreciable importance as regards life 

 and conduct. True they deal with the founda- 

 tions on which all life and conduct are based, 

 but like other foundations they are hidden 

 out of sight, and the sounder they are, the 

 less we trouble ourselves about them. 



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