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THE WATER BABIES which some children have about having lived before; and this is what he said—

There, you can know no more than that. But if I was you, I would believe that. For then the great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm; and instead of fancying, with some people, that your body makes your soul, as if a steam-engine could make its own coke; or, with some people, that your soul has nothing to do with your body, but is only stuck into it like a pin into a pin-cushion, to fall out with the first shake—you will believe the one true,

doctrine of this wonderful fairy tale; which is, that your soul makes your body, just as a snail makes his shell. 78