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To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.
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Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
February 18, 1838
Died:
February 19, 1916
(aged 78)
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