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cluster of bees at their hive, or of ants at their 

 nests, hurrying and scrambling over and around 

 each other in constant and curious motions. And 

 if our eyes were powerful enough to see the mole- 

 cules of which a block of wood or a human body is 

 composed, they would witness such a scene of activ- 

 ity as the crowded bees and ants exhibit, only still 

 more curious and constant. When water is changed 

 into steam it goes into the air as widely separated and 

 invisible particles which disappear entirely, but every 

 particle is still in existence and may be converted 

 again into water. When wood is burned, it changes 

 into ashes, smoke and vapor. Not a single particle 

 is ever destroyed. It is so with our bodies, they 

 dissolve into their natural elements, which pass into 

 tree and shrub and air and water and other bodies ; 

 they never return to their organic form. There is 

 no resurrection of the physical body. What goes 

 down into the grave never comes forth again. The 

 spirit-body never enters the grave, but soars to the 

 celestial cities of the sun in a new and endless life. 

 Nature and Deity would not do so nugatory a thing 

 as to resurrect three or four bucketsful of water 

 and a handful of bonedust. Fresher and better 

 material is at hand in abundance all the time. 



There are bodies all around us so small that we 

 cannot see them. They are in the air we breathe 

 and in the water we drink. Some of them are alive 

 and some are not. Many of them are so small we 

 need the most powerful microscope to detect their 

 presence. Yet every one is made up of parts much 

 smaller than itself. The fine dust which clings to 

 our fingers when we hold a butterfly or a moth, 

 scarce visible to the naked eye, is found under the 



