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not only does the stain run on further than the spot of contact, but it discolours other of the threads. And remember that the threads are living-are like electric wires; more, are like quivering nerves. How far, then, must the stain, the drag awry, be communicated. But eventually the long strands, the living threads which in the unbroken Continuity form the individual, pass out of the shadow into the shine. Then the threads are no longer colourless, but golden; once more they lie together, level. Once more harmony is established between them: and from that harmony within the greater harmony is perceived.
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This illustration presents but a small 'portion---a single side of the truth: it is less than a fragment. Yet, dwell on it; by its aid you may be led to perceive more. What it is necessary first to understand is not that the future is arbitrarily formed by any separate acts of the present, but
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