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and that you cannot sink lower than you will to fall. Which of you who so cheerfully accept that vague theory of inductive science, that teaches you to believe men were once apes, need shrink back with contempt from the idea that your spirits were as rudimental as your bodies? Which of you that so fiercely reject the Darvinian theory yet offer no better hypothesis for human origin who would rather fancy you were nothing, than anything lower than your arrogance deems worthy of you-which of you can believe that from nothing sprang something, or that you suddenly appeared on the theatre of existence, a full-fledged immortal soul, with a witherward, but no whenceheavenly goal to attain to, but no beginning to spring from ?
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