320 PHYSIOLOGY CHAP. 



Neither this sublime religious sentiment nor this contempt for 

 physiological life is, however, necessary in order to take away the 

 fear of death. Belief, or at all events a suggestive hope in the 

 survival of human personality, is independent of any religious 



Fio. 128. The Communion of St. Jerome. (Photograph by Alinari, Florence.) 



creed and does not differ essentially from faith in the future of 

 humanity, the beneficial effect of virtue or the ideal of science 

 and art. It will suffice to recall the heroic death of Socrates as 

 recorded by Xenophon, and in more modern times the calm, we 

 might almost say joyous, death of the author of Human 

 Personality (F. W. Myers), who died in Koine on January 17, 



