HUMAN LIFE 



which you are inclined to accept on my 

 word. 



Nor have I been able to find proof, the 

 kind of proof that proves things to me, 

 of immortality by attending spiritist 

 seances or in reading the volumes of the 

 Society for Psychical Research or the 

 many other books that recite the expe- 

 riences of alleged participators in or ob- 

 servers of things of after death. I should, 

 indeed, truly be appalled by death, the 

 biologist says, and it would have a ter- 

 ror for me greater than it has even as a 

 possible complete extinguisher of my 

 personality, if it meant that it was the 

 beginning for me of a perpetual personal 

 spirit existence in which my thoughts 

 and conversations were to be of the kind 

 exampled by those recorded in the Psychi- 

 cal Research and spiritist books. I do 

 not wish to spend a spirit existence re- 

 sponding to calls from earth to describe 

 the quality of the cigars that I am per- 

 mitted to enjoy in my eternal life beyond. 

 But in the same breath the biologist says, 

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