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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: them, will vanish to be replaced by something unknown, that
ambitions will lose their hold of us, and that, at the best, the
mere loss of hopes and fears will leave us empty. So at least we
think, who seek not variation but continuance, since the spirit
must differ from the body and that thought alarms our
intelligence.
At least some of us think so; others, like Bickley, write down
the future as a black and endless night, which after all has its
consolations since, as has been wisely suggested, perhaps
oblivion is better than any memories. Others again, like Bastin,
would say of it with the Frenchman, plus ca change, plus c'est la
When the World Shook |
