or any [other] substance which, to your minds, appears yet farther removed [from life]!"1 And [if] thereupon they ask, "Who is it that will bring us back [to life]?" - say thou: "He who has brought you into being in the first instance." And [if] thereupon they shake their heads at thee [in disbelief] and ask, "When shall this be?" -say thou: "It may well be soon,