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It is common enough to hear of people who want a place in the reincarnatory sun, compensating for their present obscurity by the discovery that they were formerly Cleopatra or Julius Caesar or the like in their previous reincarnation. We laugh at such weakness and vanity but we might ask such persons why should the presence of remembrance stop with the last birth. What about the birth before that? What about the dozens of births before that ultimate one? What about the births during the prehistoric period? Why pick on only the first and not on the hundredth birth from the present one?

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 2 : Rebirth and Reincarnation > # 120