4 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



concerning a future life always fail to 

 attain aught but negative results? Let 

 us say at once that humanity will 

 probably be able to ascertain as much 

 as it may be necessary or useful for us 

 to know in this world. This hope is 

 founded on our firm belief that at this 

 time a basis such as that above men- 

 tioned really exists. Natural science 

 has furnished this basis, though no- 

 body as yet has happened to reflect 

 that the facts upon which this basis 

 rests may have any bearing upon our 

 attitude toward a future life, much less 

 give answer to questions such as the 

 following: How% and in what way, is 

 man to pass from this life into another? 



It will be the object of the following 

 pages, then, to develop further the view 

 just intimated. 



In prehistoric times men believed in 

 a close relationship between the soul of 

 the deceased and his body in the grave, 

 and this purely instinctive faith is the 

 more remarkable, as it prevailed during 

 stages of civilization when differentia- 



