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that in that future of perfect bliss, she may husband, and believes that she will. This mean in any physical sense, but that the perfection which is attained by the religious observances and soul growth of the husband shall also be hers, so that the unity in the marriage relations, in the spirittual interpretation of them, is perpetual. But we, the Jains of India, also teach that in the perfect concondition, soul is without sex, there is no man-soul. or woman-soul in the sex sense, in that perfect state. In the perfect state recognition obtains and the individuality in the real sense of it is not lost. If you can conceive of the souls of husband and wife in the perfect state, looking back to the human its physical relations of sex, you may also conceive of their saying that that human condition was true, and just and holy, and necessary within its horizon, but that those relations were means to an end, also sacred and that the true relation which now we realize in the perfect state, where sex does not enter in, is the true and permanant relation.
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I must also speak of the impressions that I have received in relation to the government and politics of your great country. I will say that as far as I have been able to grasp it, your theory of government is also among the monuments of Western civilization. I cannot command words to express my admiration of that theory, if I take the theory from the undying
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