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The body of anything which is fed is continually dying and being reborn, since nourishment can- not enter save where the past nourishment is ex- hausted; and if it is exhausted, it no longer has life, and if you do not furnish it with nourish- ment equal to that which has been before, you will impair the health of the organism, and if you deprive it of this nourishment, life will be altogether destroyed. But if you supply it with so much as can be consumed in a day, then as much life will be restored as was consumed, like the light of the candle which is furnished to it by the fuel provided by the moisture of the can- dle, and this light with most speedy succour re- stores beneath what is consumed above as it dies in dusky smoke; and this death is continuous, likewise the continuity of the smoke is equal to the continuity of the fuel ; and in the same mo- ment the light dies and is born again together with the movement of its fuel.

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Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

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Look on light and consider its beauty. Shut your

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