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for good, and too often for evil, by our friends and 

 neighbours. Every faculty of the mind, indeed, belies 

 the idea of isolated and independent existence, and 

 affords the evidence of an extra-corporeal presence, 

 quite as distinct and real as that of heat and light 

 beyond the limits of the glowing embers. 



We arrive at the same conclusion, also, if 

 we examine the mind in relation to memory and 

 personality. 



There is good reason to believe that the records of 

 memory are not all preserved within the body, and that 

 something has been noted down in the place or thing 

 to which the records refer. This appears, in great 

 measure, from our own experience in relation to 

 persons with whom we have associated, and with 

 whose thoughts and actions we are familiar. These 

 thoughts and actions remain with us, and become a 

 part of our being, and not only are we ourselves con- 

 scious of the addition, but they with whom the thoughts 

 and actions had their origin, they know that our 

 memory is furnished in this manner, they know that 

 we keep a faithful register of what they have said or 

 done. In like manner, also, these persons remember 

 our words and deeds, and we know that this is the 

 case. 



The knowledge of identity which attaches to things 

 we have once seen is also an argument that these 



