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and not in a distant prison. If the mind of man, 

 moreover, is such as we have attempted to show in 

 the first part of this chapter, namely, an essence 

 continually extending throughout creation in an in- 

 stinctive search after ubiquity, and including with 

 each succeeding moment a wider circle ; and if every 

 word and act is imperishable, it may be as impossible 

 to withdraw from a place which has once been occu- 

 pied, as to annihilate a word or idea. An essence 

 like this may become happier by being nearer to 

 Deity, or be rendered miserable by remaining apart, 

 but these changes may take place as Deity is omni- 

 present not only without leaving the body with 

 which it was associated at death, but also without 

 leaving the other bodies, which it had occupied at 

 earlier periods, and which seemed to have been laid 

 aside by degrees. 



There are other considerations, also, which lead us 

 to entertain this opinion. The term sleep, indeed, 

 which is so often used to express death, is applied, as 

 it would seem, to the condition of the entire being ; 

 indeed, it is admitted by all, that the interval between 

 death and resurrection is one of imperfection when 

 compared with the state which follows imperfection, 

 that is to say, in the whole being, and not merely in 

 the bodily part. We arrive, also, at the same conclu- 

 sion from the history of those persons who have been 

 raised from the dead, as Lazarus, the widow's son of 



