Larger context for LACK in Corpus USbrown_UKbncw/US_brown.txt DBL-CLICK WDS FOR DEF
At least I should like them to know that I know these discounts are being made.
Let me then (and in public) glance into the mirror.
I have known some men and women who said that the selves they are told about or even remember seem utter strangers to them now; that their remote past is as discontinuous with their present selves, as lacking in any conscious likeness to their mature personality, as the self of a butterfly may be imagined discontinuous with that of the caterpillar it once was.
For my part I find it difficult to conceive such a state of affairs.