And ours is greater, had we skill to know:

For, what we call this life of men on earth,

This sequence of the soul's achievements here

Being, as I find much reason to conceive,

Intended to be viewed eventually

As a great whole, not analyzed to parts,

But each part having reference to all,—

How shall a certain part, pronounced complete,

Endure effacement by another part?

Was the thing done?—then, what's to do again?