Mar, 27.
The nearer death, the nearer nature. The farther we go back in our researches into the story of the rise of man, the clearer it becomes that his departure from this life was something to be described in euphemistic terms, all ugly suggestions regarding it being in this manner gently put aside. Modern times have seen changes in this respect, for modern days have produced in some a cult of morbidity totally opposed to man's real nature as that was understood when the world was young. Even now we are accustomed to the use of terms from which the naked thought of death is banished. There is the common place. Not lost but gone before," and the even more common, ""Departed this life." Dib-
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