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of its own relations with the infinity of like unities, and 
which more or less draws near to them by thought and by 
love. It is beyond our power to conceive what will become 
of that unity when, quitting its prison of flesh, and soaring 
into the ideal ether, it will no longer have organs with 
which to act; but what we can affirm is that, precisely by 
reason of this freedom, it will rise to a clearer knowledge 
of all that it had only known obscurely, and to a purer love 
of what it had adored only through the veil of sense. And 
this certainty, which is the ennobling and elevating force 
of life, is also the consolation for death. 
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