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to be possessed by matter of every kind, 

 though to very varying extent. 



So it would appear to be with the power 

 possessed by matter to incarnate and display 

 mind. 



There are grades of incarnation : the 

 most thorough kind is that illustrated by our 

 bodies ; in them we are incarnate, but 

 probably not even in that case is the in- 

 carnation complete. It is quite credible 

 that our whole and entire personality is 

 never terrestrially manifest. 



There are grades of incarnation. Some 

 of the personality of an Old Master is locked 

 up in a painting : and whoever wilfully 

 destroys a great picture is guilty of some- 

 thing akin to murder, namely, the premature 

 and violent separation of soul and body. 

 Some of the soul of a musician can be 

 occluded in a piece of manuscript, to be 

 deciphered thereafter by a perceptive mind. 



Matter is the vehicle of mind, but it is 

 dominated and transcended by it. A paint- 

 ing is held together by cohesive forces 



