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"A word you dropped the other day," said the curate, "set me / thinking of the note-worthy fact that belief in God and belief in / immortality cease together. But I do not see the logic of it. If we / are here without God, why may we not go on there without God? I / marvel that I have heard of no one taking up and advocating the / view. What a grand discovery it would be for some people -- that not / only was there no God to interfere with them, and insist on their / becoming something worth being, but that they were immortal / notwithstanding! that death was only the passage of another birth / into a condition of enlarged capacity for such bliss as they enjoyed / here, but more exalted in degree, perhaps in kind, and altogether / preferable."
"I know one to whom the thought would not have been a new one," said / Polwarth. "Have you not come upon a passage in my brother's / manuscript involving the very idea?"