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  • There is, they say, (and I believe there is),
    A spark within us of th' immortal fire,
    That animates and moulds the grosser frame;
    And when the body sinks, escapes to heaven;
    Its native seat, and mixes with the gods.

    John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.111, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.