He opened it with keen interest and found that it was a somewhat newly written paper and dealt with a subject they had discussed in connection with the chapter on Death in Drummond's book.

Uncle Zed had begun his epistle by addressing it, "Dear Dorian" and then continued as follows: "You remember that some time ago we talked on the subject of sin and death.

Since then I have had some further thought on the subject which I will here jot down for you.

You asked me, you remember, what sin is, and I tried to explain.

Here is another definition: Man belongs to an order of beings whose goal is perfection.