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y shown for him? CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Spa, June 10. Here we are, and for a time at rest. Rest! no, the wheels of the carriage may rest, even the body for a time may rest, but the mind will not. We carry our restlessness with us wherever we go. Like a steam-engine, the mind works, and works, and works, sometimes, indeed, with less rapidity of motion; but still it goes on, goes on in its ever-continued labour; waking or sleeping, no repose; until the body, which is the mechanical part of the engine, is worn out by constant friction, or the steam of the mind is exhausted. And people tell you, and believe that there is rest in the grave. How can that be? The soul is immortal and cannot exist without consciousness. If not conscious, it does not exist; and if conscious, it must work on, even beyond the grave, and for ever. To assert that there is rest in the grave, is denying the immortality of the soul. And what a contemptible, base slave the body is to the soul! I was going to say that he could not call his soul his own; but that would be a Catachresis, and I hate and abominate every thing which begins with _cat_. It is singular that they are all unpleasant, or unlucky, or unsafe; for instance-- +=============+=========================================+ Y Yremind you of Y +-------------+-----------------------------------------+ YCat-acombs Ydeath, funerals, and mummies. Y +-------------+-----------------------------------------+ YCat-alogue Ysale of effects, some poor devil done up.Y +-------------+-----------------------------------------+ YCat-aplasm Ya boil poulticed. Y +-------------+-----------------------------------------+ YCat-aract Ysore eyes, Sam Patch, and devastation. Y +-------------+-----------------------------------------+ YCat-arrh Yhead stuffed, running of the glands. Y +-------------+-----------------------------------------+ YCat-echism Yequally unpleasant in youth and marriage.Y +-------------+-----------------------------------------+ YCat-egorical Yargument, which is detestable. Y +-------------+-----------------------------------------+ YCat-erpillarsYbeasts who foul nature. Y +-------------+-----------------------------------------+ YCat-erwaul Yhorrid variety of love. Y +-----------
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