...and such great alterations. Nay, for aught we know of ourselves, of our present life and of death, death may immediately, in the natural course of things,...which our capacities and sphere of perception and of action may be much greater than at present. Again : The constitution of human creatures, and indeed...

...both, with such and such great alterations. "Nay, for aught we know of our present life and death, death may immediately in the natural course of things...which our capacities and sphere of perception, and of action, may be much greater than at present." "Perhaps," wrote Victor Hugo, "I am the tadpole of...

...Heaven and the Victorians (London. 1971), 48. and before they were raised again. Butler continued: 'death may immediately in the natural course of things,...perception and action may be much greater than at present'. 78 Thus death was seen to be a progressive step in the development of self, which was intimately tied...

...tmdoa to . birth does ;* a state in which our capacities ^^ 5iS ** and sphere of perception and of action may be much greater than at present. For as...external organs of sense renders us capable of existing io our present state of sensation, so it may be the only natural Mnderance to our existing, immediately...

...continuation of both, with such and such great alterations." So, similarly, "death may immediately . . . put us into a higher and more enlarged state of life...which our capacities and sphere of perception and of action may be much greater than at present."25 Butler argues that we can also know something of...