Show WITH THE HIGH SCHOOL CLASSICS J A w t by MARGARET BOYD BOY D Q by margaret boyd 1 I tell you yet again banquot a bu bur led he cannot coms com atit out ons one grave gr mcbeth macbeth that the dead are seen n no I 1 0 more more writes samuel ninuel 9 johnson Jo linson 1 I will wll not under tate to maintain the coo concurrent current and v testimony of ull all nees ages rind and of 0 all nations there la Is no people rude or learned among whom apparitions of the lend dead are not related and believed bellev cil tills 0 pinion opinion willett which perhaps prevails as fur far as human nature la Is dirr diffused used coull could become universal only by its truth those hose that never heard of one another would not have agreed in it a title talo which nothing but experience can make credible that flint it Is doubted by single cavilers hcan very little weaken the general evidence arid some ahil deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears the great majority of ghosts are ol of course frauds but r research organization has ever been able to prove that nil fill ghosts are frauds no one lifts lias yet proved that lady macbeth wag right when she 1 could not come out of tits his grave the subject of ghosts Is of interest because of its hearing bearing on the subject of 0 the immortality of 0 tho the soul it ghosts exist then obviously fit the BOJI does not die at the same anine time that the lilt body dies although socrates by masterly reasoning convinced himself of tha ho immortality of the soul and although till all lie great religious teachers tou chers haye have taught the lie immortality of th thal soul anil there are many who have not been convinced because us ns plate quotes acebes its as saying in fit what relates to he soul men are apt to be lous ous they fear that when site sho leaves tile he body her place may bo be nowhere noh pre and ana that on the ho very vcr day of death slip she may be destroyed and immediately on tier her rele release fise from the body issuing forth like smoke or air and valti vanishing shing away into nothingness socrates was ft as of the opinion that hut the soul tint that was pure at death would nut not return as a glidest such a soul boul wua was totally severed from the body at death and gathered herself into herself hei self in a state that seems analogous to the buddhists Nir nirvana vann of which arnoll arnold broo yr oo y ta the aching cra araxi Z to 0 live nde and d clr its ga glide des oteless to nameless na mele quiet julet nameless joy D jesse d NIRVANA sinless tirla stir tIr lB loos rc hegt t th that at change which never eal socrates believed bell ced linneer lio boi neer veyer that few souls are pure nt at deatle for roost most ot of us each pleasure and pain Is a sort of nall which nails and rivets the soul to the body 11 most souls love the body bod and dread the tie invisible existence to which pure souls go these are the souls that flint may be seen prowling about tombs and sepulchers made visible to our eyes by the alloy alley and impurity that hat cling to the soul as a result of 0 the love of life and of the body but life being weary of these worldly bars never lack axer to dismiss itself julius caesar why Is suicide held not to be was one of the questions put pill to socrates during that lint last long ions talk he tied had with 11 his friends while he waited for his jailer to bring lilia him the cup of poison according to clatos account socrates answered 1 I suppose you won der why 4 when it a roan man to Is better belief dead lie he Is not permitted to be his own benefactor but roust must watt walt for the hand of another I 1 admit the appearance of inconsistency incon lutency but there may not be tiny any rent real inconsistency after all in this there isa is a doctrine uttered in fit secret that man inan Is n prisoner who has no right to open tile the door of lila ills prison and run away this Is a great mystery which I 1 do not quite understand our western laws lav a and churches hold suicide to be wrong pal there to Is a general fee feeling that when a man eam cpm mits suicide lie he breaks the rules by which the game of life Is played we know inov that 11 in a race for example a man Js s ex pled to finish the course even though all the other runners irive crossed ifie 11 e line an hour before him to the bystanders there stems seems no an in n this tbt tu tip item it seems that after enough trien roen have crossed the he line to tn score all the points that con can be scored the othar runners al hougil be allowed allm ed to inep over the side lines and quit tbt th race they ney cannot see eee any reason for making a man run after ell all chances of scoring seem over but the trainer sees reason reanon in the proceedings life to fril fri fuenty ju enty likened to a race some people hold that the two cases ere are not analogous because the player enters race voluntarily oni and we hu ahu roan man beings are horn born into life without our consent others hold that we do enter life voluntarily the latter be eteve with socrates and the buddhists buddhist in the transmigration rif of the soul they insist hut the soul that does not with for life Is not reincarnated this thin Is of course a subject about which nobody knows though many may speculate trying to twist jc jat alg hl way and that to suit their i pd p D b be |