The Question at Issue a6 
and two. Solve either, and we have solved the other ; 
they should be studied not apart, for they are never parted, 
but together, and they will tell more tales of one another 
than either will tell about itself. If there is one thing 
which advancing knowledge makes clearer than another, 
it is that death is swallowed up in life, and life in death ; 
so that if the last enemy that shall be subdued is death, then 
indeed is our salvation nearer than what we thought, for in 
strictness there is neither life nor death, nor thought nor 
thing, except as figures of speech, and as the approximations 
which strike us for the time as most convenient. There is 
neither perfect life nor perfect death, but a being ever with 
the Lord only, in the eternal ¢dpa, or going to and fro and 
heat and fray of the universe. When we were young we 
thought the one certain thing was that we should one day 
come to die ; now we know the one certain thing to be that 
we shall never wholly do so. Non omnis moriar, says 
Horace, and “I die daily,” says St. Paul, as though a life 
beyond the grave, and a death on this side of it, were each 
some strange thing which happened to them alone of all 
men; but who dies absolutely once for all, and for ever 
at the hour that is commonly called that of death, and who 
does not die daily and hourly? Does any man in continu- 
ing to live from day to day or moment to moment, do more 
than continue in a changed body, with changed feelings, 
ideas, and aims, so that he lives from moment to moment 
only in virtue of a simultaneous dying from moment to 
moment also ? Does any man in dying do more than, on a 
larger and more complete scale, what he has been doing 
on a small one, as the most essential factor of his life, from 
the day that he became “ he” at all? When the note of 
life is struck the harmonics of death are sounded, and so, 
again, to strike death is to arouse the infinite harmonics of 
jife that rise forthwith as incense curling upwards from a 
censer. If in the midst of life we are in death, so also in the 
midst of death we are in life, and whether we live or whether 
