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Show Immortality. For my own paj t, therefore, I bollove in the Immortality of the soul, not In the sense In which I accept the demonstrable demon-strable truths of science, but as a supreme su-preme act of faith In the reasonableness reasonable-ness of Qod's work. Such a belief, relating re-lating to regions quite Inaccessible to experience, cannot, of course, be cloth-d cloth-d In the termB of definite and tangible tan-gible meaning. For the experience which alone can give us such terms we must await that solemn day which is to overtake us all. The belief can be most quickly defined by Its negation, as the refusal to believe that this world Is all. The materialist holds that when you have described the whole universe of phenomena, of which we can become cognizant under the conditions con-ditions of the present life when the whole story le told. It seems to me, on the contrary, that the whole story Is not told. I feel the omnipresence of mystery in such wise as to make far easier for me to adopt the view ol Euripides, that what we call death may be but the dawning of true knowledge knowl-edge and true life. The greatest philosopher phil-osopher of modern times, the master and teacher of all who shall study the process of evolution for many a day to come, holds that the conscious soul Is not the product of a collocation of material particles, but is, in the deepest deep-est sense, a divine effluence. According Accord-ing to Mr. Spencer, the divine energy which Is manifested throughout the knowahle universe Is the same energy that wells up In us as consciousness. i |