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Show Life and Death a Unity. Life is a state which follows npon death. Death Is a state which precedes pre-cedes life. Which of us understands the laws that govern their succession? The life of mnn is the resultant of forces. The aggregation of these forces Is life; their dispersion, death. If, then, life and death are but consecutive consecu-tive states of existence, what cause for sorrow have I? And so it is that all things are hut phases of unity. What men delight In is the spiritual essence of life. What they loathe Is the material corruption of death. But this state of corruption corrup-tion gives place to thnt state of spirituality spir-ituality and thnt state of spirituality gives place in turn to this state of corruption. Therefore we may say that all in the universe is comprised in unity; and therefore the Inspired among us have adopted unity as their criterion n. A. Giles, In "Translated Gems From Chinese Literature." |