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6. The Vitalised Shell, This entity ought not, strictly speaking, to be classified under the head"human ”at all, since it is only its outer vesture, the passive, senseless shell, that was once an appanage of humanity; such life, intelligence, desire, and will as it may possess are those of the artificial elemental animating it, and that, though in terrible truth a creation of man’s evil thought, is not itself human. It will therefore perhaps be better to deal with it more fully under its appropriate class among the