Ivi SUMMARIES 



HUMAN IMMORTALITY: ITS POSITIVE 

 ARGUMENT 



FAGB 



Professor James's Ingersoll Lecture: need of something more 

 than a fairway for the " will to believe," in the case of Im- 

 mortality. Can we advance beyond Answering Objections, 

 and reach some Positive Proof ? . . . . . . 279 



I. The objection to Immortality from the maxim of modern 

 psychology, that " mind is a function of the brain " : 

 logical flaw in attempting to rebut it by the Trans- 

 mission-Theory of this functional relation . . . 284 



II. Stricter interpretation needed of the functional relation 

 between Mind and Brain, if Personal Immortality, the 

 only immortality significant, is to be reconciled with 

 modern psychology; substitution of Simple Concomi- 

 tance between brain-functiun and mind-state for Pro- 

 fessor James's Transmission-Theory; passage to the 

 a priori or self-active personal consciousness of each 

 mind, as the implied ground of this Concomitance . 292 



III. Extension of the foregoing argument, from the single 



case of Time, as a priori, to the whole complex of the 

 a priori conditions for experience or Nature ; the Soul 

 the source and centre of these conditions, therefore 

 determinant of Nature instead of subject to it, and 

 hence not perishable by any of Nature's vicissitudes, 

 of which Death is merely one ..... 303 



IV. Reply to the Objection that the foregoing argument estab- 



lishes nothing but a power intrinsic in the Soul to 

 keep in existence merely, and fails to prove an immor- 

 tality of rational and moral Worth .... 308 



