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them right. A few then grow bolder, and, by some felicitous chords, 
essay to supply the harmony to the dominant melody. 
An education so delicate, so varied, so complex, is it that of a 
machine, of a brute reduced to instinct? Who can refuse in this to 
acknowledge a soul ? 
Open your eyes to the evidence. Throw aside your prejudices, 
your traditional and derived opinions. Preconceived ideas and dog- 
matic theories apart, you cannot offend Heaven by restoring a soul 
to the beast.* How much grander the Creator’s work if he has 
created persons, souls, and wills, than if be has constructed 
machines! 
Dismiss your pride, and acknowledge a kindred in which there 
is nothing to make a devout mind ashamed. Whatare these? They 
are your brothers. 
What are they? embryo souls, souls especially set apart for 
certain functions of existence, candidates for the more general and 
more widely harmonic life to which the human soul has attained. 
When will they arrive thither? and how? God has reserved to 
himself these mysteries. 
All that we know is this: that he summons them—them also— 
to mount higher and yet higher. 
* The reader must not identify the translator with these opinions, which, however, he 
dict not feel at liberty to modify or omit. 
