chap, vi.] GOOD AND BAD ALL DIE. 169 
lias vanished, and I have been unable to trace the 
cause—nor could I find the spot.” 
“ Have you no idea of the existence of spirits su¬ 
perior to either man or beast ? Have you no fear of 
evil except from bodily causes ?” 
Commoro— u I am afraid of elephants and other 
animals when in the jungle at night, but of nothing 
else.” 
“ Then you believe in nothing; neither in a good nor 
evil spirit! And you believe that when you die it will 
be the end of body and spirit; that you are like 
other animals ; and that there is no distinction between 
man and beast; both disappear, and end at death ?” 
Commoro. —“ Of course they do.” 
“ Ho you see no difference in good and bad actions ?” 
Commoro. — “ Yes, there are good and bad in men 
and beasts.” 
“ Ho you think that a good man and a bad must 
share the same fate, and alike die, and end?” 
Commoro. —“ Yes ; what else can they do ? How 
can they help dying ? Good and bad all die.” 
“ Their bodies perish, but their spirits remain; the 
good in happiness, the bad in misery. If you have 
no belief in a future state, why should a man be good ? 
Why should he not be bad, if he can prosper by 
wickedness ?” 
Commoro. —“ Most people are bad * if they are 
strong they take from the weak. The good people are 
all weak; they are good because they are not strong 
enough to be bad.” 
Some xorn had been taken out of a sack for the 
horses, and a few grains lying scattered on the ground, 
I tried the beautiful metaphor of St. Paul as an 
example of a future state. Making a small hole with 
my finger in the ground, I placed a grain within it; 
“ That,” I said, “ represents you when you die.” 
Covering it with earth, I continued, “ That grain will 
decay, but from it will rise the plant that will produce 
a reappearance of the original form.” 
