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PHYSICAL CONSIDERATIONS CONNECTED WITH MAN'S ULTIMATE DESTINATION. *
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . LII .
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There are three ways of regarding the condition of the human being after death , each of which has its advocates , since the subject presents but a choice of difficulties . Men will not cease to speculate on a subject in which each has an individual interest , though a very scanty portion of evidence can , from the nature of the case , be obtained at present , and science , both
physical and metaphysical , must have advanced to a degree which we can scarcely anticipate before any thing like certainty can be established as to the essence of human identity , the mode in which that identity is preserved , and the circumstances by which it shall be surrounded after death . There are a multitude of accessories to the interest which attends this very obscure inquiry . A being , whose individual fate was in no way involved in the question , —one who could contemplate humanity without being subject to its
ordinary conditions—the Wandering Jew , for instance , or St . Leon—could not but feel a stirring curiosity about the destination of such a creature as man , after it was known that death is not the end of being . He would look on him one day , every fibre thrilling with life ; and every limb , powerful in its muscular strength , made tenfold more powerful by the direction given to that strength by some internal existence made known only through its
controul over the outward man . He would look on him again and see the external frame , fearfully wonderful in the delicacy of its organization , but cold , insensible , tending to decay ; and as . for the power within—what and where is it ? Is it asleep ? Is it departed ? Is it there , conscious and watchful , though in no way manifested to the observer ? How intense , how irritating would be the curiosity such a wanderer of the earth would feel as he tracked the steps of death age after age through many climes , keeping
* An Essay on such Physical Considerations as are connected with Mau ' s UHi mate Destination ; the Essential Constitution of Superior Beings ; and the Pre sumptive Unity of Nature . By Andrew Carmichael , JV 1 . R . I . A . Dublin . 1830 .
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APRIL , 1831 .
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VOL . V . R
Physical Considerations Connected With Man's Ultimate Destination. *
PHYSICAL CONSIDERATIONS CONNECTED WITH MAN ' S ULTIMATE DESTINATION . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1831, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2596/page/1/
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