no The Destiny of Man. 



thought and feeling can exist in the ab- 

 sence of a cerebrum would be cerebral 

 physiology ! 



The materialistic assumption that there 

 is no such state of things, and that the life 

 of the soul accordingly ends with the life 

 of the body, is perhaps the most colossal 

 instance of baseless assumption that is 

 known to the history of philosophy. No 

 evidence for it can be alleged beyond the 

 familiar fact that during the present life 

 we know Soul only in its association with 

 Body, and therefore cannot discover disem- 

 bodied soul without dying ourselves. This 

 fact must always prevent us from obtain- 

 ing direct evidence for the belief in the 

 soul's survival. But a negative presump- 

 tion is not created by the absence of proof 

 in cases where, in the nature of things, 

 proof is inaccessible. 17 With his illegiti- 

 mate hypothesis of annihilation, the mate- 

 rialist transgresses the bounds of experi- 

 ence quite as widely as the poet who sings 

 of the New Jerusalem with its river of life 



