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is world? Cannot one help that passage to succeed by taking while still alive certain psychological or even physical measures? Which spe cifically? What must one foresee, what must one stock, what must one-avoid? Should one regard religion (argued Graf, dallying in the de serted darkened pub where the chairs were already yawning and being put to bed on the tables)—religion, which covers the walls of life with sacred pictures—as something on the lines of that attempt to create a favorable setting (rather in the same way as, according to certain phy- sicians, the photographs of professional babies, with nice, chubby cheeks, by adorning the bedroom of a pregnant woman act beneficially on the fr