HUMAN IMMORTALITY: ITS POSITIVE 

 ARGUMENT 



WITH REFERENCE TO THE INGERSOLL LECTURE OF 

 PROFESSOR JAMES 



In offering you to-night some words on the 

 great question of human immortahty, I enjoy the 

 advantage of the interest awakened by the essay 

 of my brilliant friend from Harvard, read a few 

 months ago in this room.^ The memory of that 

 noble evening lives with you, I doubt not, still 

 undimmed, and long will live, as it lives and long 

 will live with me. The thoughts then stirred 

 within you, I can count upon as having waked 

 many another of those questions which haunt us 

 concerning the mystery of life ; and I may feel 

 assured of your sympathy when I now attempt 

 to renew their current. 



I may assume, I judge, that some of you not only 

 felt regarding immortality the difficulties which our 

 guest addressed himself to obviating, but were also 



1 The essay was read before the Berkeley Club of Oakland, California, 

 in April, 1899. Professor James had read his IngersoU Lecture to the 

 same company in September, 1S98. 



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