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There are some people who wish they could overcome death and preserve their present bodies forever. But you see this would be a Digitized by GooqI^ CRUSTACEANS. 131 disadvantage, for they could never recover the amputated limbs nor the lost minds if they didn't slough off this outgrown sheath of a body ; neither could they acquire faculties in which they have always been wanting. So, too, it seems that it would be a disad- vantage for us to molt but once, and then to remain forever and forever ...in the next stage, as people us^d to think we would ; for that would mean that we ceased to advance after this one molting which we call death. And don't you think it would be better to keep right on growing and molting, acquiring new faculties each time like the young crusta- ceans, and each time coming out of the old case more and more nearly resembling our. one per- fect Parent and Creator ? "But what has this to do with cantho- caampti or cyclops or diaptomi ? " Why, this : they have taught us what a blessing death is.
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