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"And what are those theories?" I asked, beco deeply interested in the conversation

Cellini was silent for a minute or so; he seemed absorbed in a sort of inward coravity: "In this world, mademoiselle, there are no two natures alike, yet all are born with a small portion of Divinity within the in the centre of the weight of clay hich we are encuerm or seed can be cultivated if ill--that is, if we desire and insist on its growth As a child's taste for art or learning can be educated into high capabilities for the future, so can the huh, so supreme an attainment, that no nificence With er, overlaid and weighted down by the lymphatic laziness and materialistic propensities of its shell or husk--the body

But I must put aside the forlorn prospect of the er quantity than that proportioned out to a dog or bird--I have only to speak of the rare feho its existence within theht till it becouishable flame The mistake made by these examples of beatified Humanity is that they too often sacrifice the body to the demands of the spirit It is difficult to find the medium path, but it can be found; and the clai the one to the other I beg your earnest attention,THE RARE FEW WITH WHOM THE SOUL IS EVERYTHING

YOU are one of those few, unless I areatly in error And you have sacrificed your body so utterly to your spirit that the flesh rebels and suffers This will not do You have work before you in the world, and you cannot perform it unless you have bodily health as well as spiritual desire And why? Because you are a prisoner here on earth, and you must obey the laws of the prison, however unpleasant they es past and as you will be in ages to cos would be different; but at present you aolers--the Lords of Life and Death"