GENERAL CONCLUSIONS. 



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But it is a gain to be delivered from the necessity of speculat- 

 ing where the ' soul ' wanders when thought and self-conscious- 

 ness are suspended : or how it is to be disposed of until the 

 ' resurrection of the body,' glorified or otherwise ; of which rein- 

 tegrated sum of forces ' soul ' will then, as now, be a parcel. 

 If the Physiologist and Pathologist had done no more than 

 demonstrate ' the universal law of our being', 1 which cuts away 

 the foundations of ' purgatory ' or other limbo, from the feet of 

 those who trade thereon, 2 which makes ( judgment ' follow death 

 without consciousness of a moment's interval, 3 they would deserve 

 the gratitude of the Christian world. 



614 



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Hipparion. 

 Derivation of Bquines. 



1 cccxxxvn''. p. 306. 



2 Not to mention the kindred baser brood of ■ Spiritualists and Spirit-Rappers.' 



8 For the importance of this conviction to 'practice,' see cccxxxvi". vol. i. p. 156, 

 63. ' In comparing present and future.' 



