"Hence it is forever falling." "But it is forever renewed," she objected.
"With what renewal ?" rejoined Faber.

"What return is there from the jaws of death?
The individual is gone.

A new consciousness is not a renewal of consciousness." She looked at him keenly.
"It is hard, is it not ?" she said.
"I will not deny that in certain moods it looks so," he answered.
She did not perceive his drift, and was feeling after it.
"Surely," she said, "the thing that ought to be, is the thing that must be." "How can we tell that ?" he returned.

"What do we see like it in nature?
Whatever lives and thrives--animal or vegetable--or human--it is all one--every thing that lives and thrives, is forever living and thriving on the loss, the defeat, the death of another.

There is no unity save absolutely by means of destruction.