And so it has happened to me and to every person, often and often, to be hit in rapid succession by these twinned facts or thoughts, as if they were linked like chain-shot.
I was going to leave the simple reader to wonder over this, taking it as an unexplained marvel.

I think, however, I will turn over a furrow of subsoil in it .-- The explanation is, of course, that in a great many thoughts there must be a few coincidences, and these instantly arrest our attention.

Now we shall probably never have the least idea of the enormous number of impressions which pass through our consciousness, until in some future life we see the photographic record of our thoughts and the stereoscopic picture of our actions.

There go more pieces to make up a conscious life or a living body than you think for.

Why, some of you were surprised when a friend of mine told you there were fifty-eight separate pieces in a fiddle.