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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: I had always been exceptionally tolerant of West’s pursuits,
and we frequently discussed his theories, whose ramifications
and corollaries were almost infinite. Holding with Haeckel that
all life is a chemical and physical process, and that the so-called
"soul" is a myth, my friend believed that artificial reanimation
of the dead can depend only on the condition of the tissues; and
that unless actual decomposition has set in, a corpse fully equipped
with organs may with suitable measures be set going again in the
peculiar fashion known as life. That the psychic or intellectual
life might be impaired by the slight deterioration of sensitive
brain-cells which even a short period of death would be apt to
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