| A huge locomotive has rushed on over the
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| | is possible, because there is no
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| line and a small worm that was creeping
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| | intelligence. This freedom that
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| upon one of the rails saved its life by
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| | distinguishes us from mere machines is
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| crawling out of the path of the
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| | what we are all striving for. To be more
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| locomotive. Yet this little worm, so
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| | free is the goal of all our efforts, for
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| insignificant that it can be crushed in a
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| | only in perfect freedom can there be
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| moment, is a living something, while this
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| | perfection. This effort to attain freedom
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| locomotive,so huge,so immense,is only an
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| | underlies all forms of worship,whether we
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| engine, a machine. You say the one has
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| | know it or not.
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| life and the other is only dead matter
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| | If we were to examine the various sorts
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| and all its powers and strength and speed
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| | of worship all over the world, we would
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| are only those of a dead machine,a
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| | see that the rudest of mankind are
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| mechanical contrivance. Yet the poor
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| | worshipping ghosts, demons, and the
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| little worm which moved upon the rail and
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| | spirits of their forefathers -- serpent
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| which the least touch of the engine would
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| | worship, worship of tribal gods,and
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| have deprived of its life is a majestic
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| | worship of the departed ones. Why do they
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| being compared to that huge locomotive.
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| | do this? Because they feel that in some
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| It is a small part of the Infinite
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| | unknown way these beings are greater,more
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| and,therefore, it is greater than this
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| | powerful than themselves, and limit their
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| powerful engine. Why should that be so?
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| | freedom. They,therefore,seek to
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| How do we know the living from the dead?
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| | propitiate these beings in order to
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| The machine mechanically performs all the
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| | prevent them from molesting them, in
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| movements its maker made it to perform,
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| | other words,to get more freedom. They
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| its movements are not those of life. How
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| | also seek to win favor from these
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| can we make the distinction between the
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| | superior beings, to get by gift of the
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| living and the dead,then? In the living
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| | gods what ought to be earned by personal
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| there is freedom,there is intelligence;
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| | effort.
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| in the dead all is bound and no freedom
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