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Miss Ludington’s Sister

CHAPTER XI
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The phrase struck me as strangely strong, but I can conceive now how she might have come to use it.
"What is your conjecture, or have you none at all," he added, after a moment's thought, still addressing Paul, "as to the relation which will exist in the spirit-land among the several souls of the same individual ?" "It seems to me," said Paul, "that the souls of an individual, being contemporaneous over there, and all together in the eternal present, will be capable of blending in a unity which here on earth, where one is gone before another comes, is impossible.

The result of such a blending would be a being which, in stead of shining with the single ray of a soul on earth, would blaze from a hundred facets simultaneously.

The word 'individual,' as applied here on earth, is a misuse of language.

It is absurd to call that an individual which every hour divides.

The, earthly stage of human life is so small that there is room for but one of the persons of an individual upon it at one time.


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