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 the four ends of the earth, detached from other creatures, or extracted from other substances. This would be indeed a wonderful thing, if it were true of none but myself, if it were only in my solitary case that a certain portion of matter had thus to be watched, kept distinct though mingled, and appropriated to myself whilst belonging to others. But try to suppose the same holding good of every human being, of Adam, and each member of his countless posterity, and see whether the resurrection will not utterly confound and overburden the mind. To every individual in the interminable throng shall his own body be given, a body so literally, his own, that it shall be made up, to at least a certain extent, of the matter which composed it whilst he dwelt on this earth. And yet this matter may have passed through innumerable changes. It may have circulated through the living tribes of many generations; or it may have been waving in the trees of the forest; or it may have floated on the wide waters of the deep. But there has been an eye upon it in all its appropriations, and in all, its transformations; so that, just as though it had been indelibly stamped, from the first, with the name of the human being to whom it should finally belong, it has been unerringly reserved for the great day of resurrection. Thus myriads upon myriads of atoms—for you may count up till imagination is wearied, and then reckon that you have but one unit of the still inapproachable sum—myriads upon myriads of atoms, the dust of kingdoms, the ashes of all that have lived, are perperually jostled, and mingled, and separated, and animated, and swept away, and reproduced, and, nevertheless, not a solitary particle but holds itself ready, at the sound of the last trump, to combine itself with a multitude of others, in a human body in which they once met perhaps a thousand years before."

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