HUMAN LIFE 



your children will exhibit during their life 

 but I can make no least guess as to their 

 probability of dying in a future war with 

 Germany. I feel pretty certain about 

 what will happen to the human body after 

 death but whether that is the whole sig- 

 nificance of death in relation to a human 

 being, I, not being a scientific bigot, am 

 J not at all certain. I am not a spiritist 

 but if I claimed to be able to say that 

 there are and can be no spirits, I should 

 be claiming to know the whole order of 

 Nature. And that no naturalist, nor any- 

 one else, does know. 



All that the naturalist can claim is that 

 he knows a part of the order of Nature, 

 and if some part of human life comes 

 within that known part of the order 

 of Nature then he insists that anyone 

 seriously considering human life must 

 take cognizance of this knowledge of 

 his. Men who in discussing the possi- 

 bility of a league of nations doing away 

 with war, argue against such possibility 

 on the assumed premises that fighting is 

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