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The dead man has no place in Parliament; he cannot bequeath his membership and he can never know for certain who will succeed him after his death.
It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters.