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added ; organs which formerly were soft and pliant, become 

 ossified and refuse their office ; ever more heavily does the 

 dust draw him down to dust, till at last the light-winged 

 Psyche, weary of the pressure, throws off the chrysalis- 

 shell become too gross. She leaves the dust-born body to 

 the slow combustion which we call decay. A little pile of 

 ashes remains to the earth from which they were borrowed. 

 The soul, itself immortal and incorruptible, returns from 

 the slavery 'of natural laws to the Disposer of Spiritual 

 Freedom. 



