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Show Belief in Immortality Has Its Foundation in Accepted Natural Laws JJy JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, New York Community Church. I believe in the immortality of the soul exactly as I believe in tlv law of gravitation, or the theory of evolution, or tli magnificent visior of a fourth-dimensional universe. What science consists of. in its hisrh er reaches, is speculation as to the ultimate meaning of the facts of observation ob-servation and expcrinii'iit. These facts must be explained and man's ex planatinn constitutes a generalization which we call a natural law We do pot doubt these scientific facts. We accept them as a part of the "rout body of scientific truth. Hut at Imllom (hey are all theories, delilii ratelv conceived to explain facts otherwise unexplainahle. Immortal hope is a generalization of the same kind. There arc fact-of fact-of human life that cannot be explained without tle postulate of a.'i immortal im-mortal soul. |