anything strange, then, in the longing for death as a release from a connection which thus trammels our spirit, our bodily self, and makes its welfare and efficiency dependent on a thing so gross, a thing so rooted in and bound to matter as the body of this death? Here, certainly, death is a blessing. Besides, we must consider the great significance of death for our education. In this respect, in truth, it has become a blessing to us, an incalculably great blessing, through the influence it exercises
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