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 "How do you know that it is a watch ?" "Because it ticks." "Very well, can you hear it tick?" They said they could. I then took off the case and held the watch in one hand and the case in the other. "Now which is the watch ?" I asked, "for they both look like watches." "That in the right hand," they answered. "Now I will lay the case aside; put it away from the watch; can the watch go on ticking without it?" "Yes." So it is, I said, dear children with you. Your body is nothing but the case, the soul is the inside; the case, the body, may be taken off and buried in the