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THE RA CE-PRESER VA TION DOGMA 50 5 intending either to praise or condemn them; and at deriving from them the only corollaries warranted by logic. I have enunciated what I conceive to be facts of nature, and in nature I am unable to find anything either blamable or praiseworthy. Those who believe in the independent personality and absolute freedom of the human ego will, of course, think otherwise. But in that system of philosophy that regards man as but a part of the one continuous whole there are no independent personalities; every fact, physical or mental, comes, when considered in time, from eternity; when in space, from infinity: nor does it come alone and by itself; it is only a little foam on the crest of the wave, which rises, sparkles, sinks, and is no more.