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What are the arguments presented in the essay against the denial of the body by spiritual thinkers?

Lawrence says that the people who overlook the importance of the body are themselves limited to the body. Since every person’s man-alive ends with his body. There is no bigger truth cause the thoughts that take off from the philosopher’s mind are themselves actually dead. They are mere tremulations in the ether. But if the tremulations reach another man alive, he may receive them into his life, and his life may take on a new colour, like a chameleon creeping from a brown rock on to a green leaf. Yet, fact that the spirit, the message or teaching of the philosopher or the saint, isn’t alive at all remains the same.It is just a tremulation upon the ether, like a radio message. If someone quivers from the tremulation of the other into a new life, that is because the person is man-alive.


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