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fixed phenomenon, in his physical and psychical
relations, with qualities that might be
perfected but could not be transformed, it is
now known that he can re-create himself.
Instead of a fallen man, we see an incompleted
man, out of whom, by infinite modifications in
an infinite space of time, a new being can come
into existence. Almost every day brings new
information about hitherto unsuspected
possibilities; tells us of power extended physically
or psychically. We hear of a closer reciprocal
action between the external and internal
world; of the mastery over disease, of the
prolongation of life and youth; of increased
insight into the laws of physical and psychical
origins. People even speak of giving incurable
blind men a new kind of capacity of sight,
of being able to call back to life the dead; all
this and much else which it must be allowed
still belongs simply to the region of
hypothesis, to what psychical and physical
investigators reckon among possibilities. But there
are enough great results analysed already to
show that the transformations made by man
before he became a human being are far from
being the last word of his genesis. He who
declares to-day that human nature always
remains the same, that is, remains just as it did
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