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attracts. Communication leads to an interchange of 

 thoughts, which results in a mutual understanding. 

 Then comes companionship, followed immediately by 

 affection that quality commonly called love, which 

 poets dress in all the imagery of choice metaphor, culled 

 from amid the weeds and flowers of fanciful and riotous 

 imagination, and for which they have their own 

 individual definitions. But even granted for sake of 

 argument that simple coincidence is accountable for Coinci- 

 all this, how are we to account for antipathy, the 

 diametrically opposite feeling the feeling of deadly re- 

 pulsion, of intense inimicality, between two individuals 

 who presumably have never previously met ? Does 

 Fate also provide for this eventuality in like ratio ? 



Is it not probable, is it not at all events possible, Or the 

 and quite within the bounds of human intelligence to 

 admit, that our life on this earth, varying as it does l 

 from an hour old infant to the allotted span of seventy 

 years and upwards, is simply an existence in a certain 

 sphere, a probation, a phase of an eternal life of which 

 this planet is but one stage ? A life which has existed 

 in various grades, each one gradually working up to a 

 higher level ? A life that will continue to exist in other 

 phases, until it reaches the highest level attainable? 

 And is it not also possible that these two souls have 

 met in one of the previous stages, and so have either 

 been attracted or repelled according to the existence 

 of affection or revulsion which has formerly existed 

 between them ? I fail to see why not, and I believe it 

 to be not only highly possible, but extremely probable. 

 Here again, however, we are confronted with the same 

 difficulties, and with the same want of education. The 



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