XVI. 



The Question as to a Future Life. 

 PON the question whether Hu- 



manity is, after all, to cast in its 

 lot with the grass that withers 

 and the beasts that perish, the whole fore- 

 going argument has a bearing that is by 

 no means remote or far-fetched. It is not 

 likely that we shall ever succeed in mak- 

 ing the immortality of the soul a matter of 

 scientific demonstration, for we lack the 

 requisite data. It must ever remain an 

 affair of religion rather than of science. 

 In other words, it must remain one of that 

 class of questions upon which I may not 

 expect to convince my neighbour, while at 

 the same time I may entertain a reasonable 

 conviction of my own upon the subject. 16 

 In the domain of cerebral physiology the 

 question might be debated forever without 



