AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



And he adds that the same extinguishing 

 comes to every other animal machine, to 

 all other living bodies. Do you ask for 

 something to continue after death of the 

 pet dog, the favorite riding horse, the 

 bird you shoot as game, or the insect you 

 crush under youffeet? I find no proof, 

 scientific proof, he says, that death is not 

 the end of these creatures. And you do 

 not ask me to believe otherwise because 

 of some desire or belief on your part that 

 death is not their end. Well, no more do I 

 find any proof of the kind I am familiar 

 with and content to accept, that death is 

 not the end of man. I do not say that 

 death is the end; that I have scientific 

 proof that it really is the end, but I have 

 no proof, yet, that it is not the end. 

 The strong desire and hope and that 

 next conscious state, belief, which you 

 suggest to me as proof to you that death 

 does not end all, are not the kind of proof 

 on the basis of which I ask you to accept 

 what I do really feel able to tell you as 

 facts about human life, facts many of 

 115 



