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manual or mental. The railroad grader could not use 

 the jewelers' tools nor the savage the thoughts of the 

 philosopher. And so the old warlike Scandinavians saw 

 their heaven in Valhalla, where glorious battle was 

 waged during the day and each night the dead and 

 wounded were restored to health to again fight on the 

 succeeding day. The followers of Mohammed, looking 

 up, saw Paradise, peopled by lovely Houris, among whom 

 all the joys and delights of this life should continue 

 through eternity. The Indian looked forward to the 

 Happy Hunting Grounds, where, with his faithful dog 

 and pony, untroubled by the white man, he should spend 

 an eternity in the chase. The Christian sees the new 

 Jerusalem, with its Jasper walls, its pearly gates and 

 streets paved with pure gold, where the faithful shall 

 spend an eternity singing the praises of his God. When 

 the German scientist Moleschott said "no thought with- 

 out phosphorus," no mind without brain, he was within 

 the bounds of truth as far as our human experience 

 teaches us. But when that other German scientist, Ern- 

 est Haeckel, quoting this saying of Moleschott's, says 

 this does away with the dogma of immortality, he may 

 be, and I believe he is, just as far outside the bounds of 

 truth. There may be other modes of existence for mind 

 as far beyond our earthly mind as the most faithful 

 Christian has ever claimed. But this we can only hope 

 for and can never demonstrate its truth or falsity. To 

 my mind we have in evolution our strongest hope of 

 immortality. Evolution is ever a becoming and its work 

 had its beginning in the eternity of the past and can 

 only end in the eternity of the future. Mind as a product 

 of evolution has always existed, and in our world has 

 been growing broader, fuller and more complete as the 

 centuries have come and gone. I cannot believe that 

 when the material part wears out and perishes the men- 

 tal part, having so much more value, will end also. 



I have spoken in the earlier part of this paper of the 

 two theories so closely linked together, the conservation 

 of matter and the conservation of energy. These two 

 theories, one the foundation of the science of physics and 

 the other that of chemistry, are accepted and believed 



