The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-02

eumulated within which extinguished us forwards and backwards into the inhnity of time?
 
 Writers of essays novels have at times en- deavored to these lives sincerely and profoundly, will discover in himself or three clearly defined types which nothing agree themselves which are necessarily striving to gain the upper hand, and which with S'enGe 9e,,y whose hose @ aggregate forms, our ego,
 hllcant more less selfish, calm easy pacific or pugnacious heroic pusil1animous, crafty or loyal active idle, chaste lascivous modest or vain-gorious obsequous or seadfast according to the authority which the is able to assume the others.
 But, in the life appears the most stable the most homogeneous the best balanced authority will find itself forever attacked, disturbed crcumvented, harrassed opposed, solicited, or which it did not watch narrowly enonr W hebo1o unexpected coalitions fantastic compromises ncessan conspraces. and regular d'eat, especially penings; inward tragedy does not cease for, an instant until the hour of death.
 But, once again, why past our ancestors for the actors in this tragedy which is the essential tragedy of humanity? What justification have we for supposng that the dead alone play parts? Why should those from whom possess more influence than those who will issue from us? The first remote from bodily Ire may perhaps be called in question whereas the others inhabt flesh and their existence
 
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 "But'' you will perhaps how suppose that when they have not yet lived. they possess habits virtues and vices, preferences perience in word, all that a cannot be acquired save by contact with Ife?'
 But the same objection could be raised in most cases with regard to our ancestors. Generally ing, when issued from they young; they were not yet what they became afterwards and what shall become after them. They had not quired the habits, the of thinking feeling cultivated the which producing The stubborn little mediocrfty whom all frugal, cautious, and shabby his dealings igh-S ed andr the still perhaps chaste, thief stolen, the murderer have had horror of blood she'd All this is almost equally imnateral equally potential in both the are amorphous tendencies he brain which receive from these and pass to bestows form.
 crty, the thief, the murderer, ing dead yet taking active part ancestors in the deviaons and the conduct of our life
 is the he vener- religious of humanity have foreseen revealed receiving it perhaps the authority of unknown, which religious Christianity, ma o original is but imperfect to- day than six hundred millions of human beings believe the pre-existence of soul successive and in reincarnation.
 n eyes of these religious nnediocrity begot over century is the who. a it. less paltry, little less narrow improved vious life and his passage through the mysteries of is awaiting within the rebirth, while he waits. shares instincts, and thoughts.
 He does in solitude he is but one life in back 0 live again us these past and future form the sum total of
 We discuss this doctrine of successive and of the expiatory purifying reincarnation which is and. up now the only acceptable explanation that has been discovered natures in