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of all religionists the soul is not destroyed with the body, only the relation is broken. The relation is higher and more coinplicated in the case of the human being than in that of the aniinal, and higher in aninals than in vegetables. We apply this rule to our business affairs; we follow that rule when there are two kinds of business, one more and the other less profitable; we follow that which is mora profitable, and we will abandon that in waich wa suust lose a thousand dollars before that in which we lose a less sum or nothing at all. We also apply this to the case of diet; there are spiritual reasons for avoiding that diet in which certain kinds of feelings and emotions are created. When we consider the mental state in animals, especially when they are prepared for death, just imagine the state even of a chicken at the time of being killed, and its nental condition, - our philosophy in this matter even analyzes this feeling, -we shall see that the mentality or emotion is only a peculiar state of vibrations of the physical matter of the body. If every thought, if every feeling, if every emotion causes a peculiar state of the body, such diet will certainly bave its effect on our physical and mental nature. Suppose a merchant dealing in cotton receives a telegram in the city of New York that the price of cotton has fallen fifty per cent. He opens the telegram and reads it, and if you feel his pulse you will find that there
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