CONTENTS 



— Testimony to survival of death no longer unac- 

 ceptable — We are not traitors to science when we 

 explore unusual mental processes — Much evidence 

 that personality persists; and evidence is increas- 

 ing — Realities do not go out of existence — Intelli- 

 gence, tastes, aptitudes, continue — The God of 

 Science greater and more glorious than the God 

 of theology. . . . What does survival mean? Life, 

 not death, is the fundamental thing — Energy and 

 matter need not always be associated — Energy 

 never destroyed — Interaction between life and mat- 

 ter is temporary — What individual survival in- 

 cludes — May be many grades — Example of white 

 blood corpuscles — Bees are communists. . . . Cells 

 of the body guided by common instinct — The or- 

 ganism as a whole may have identity, but cells do 

 not — Comparisons in inorganic nature — Rivers 

 have individuality, so do vegetables and lower- 

 animals — It is the element of mind and conscious- 

 ness that postulates permanent existence. . . . 

 Where does element of conscious striving enter? 

 This element is the germ of the soul — Soul postu- 

 lates a higher life — Soul may be minute; it may 

 be dominant — A reality great or small, persists — 

 The soul of the poem is not in the printed words 

 — The permanent thing which put the body cells 

 together endures long after the cells have been dis- 

 persed. . . . The remaining question one of fact — 

 Evidence of survival depends on experience not 

 argument — Critically examine the evidence — 

 "Nothing irrational in idea of spirit persistence" — 

 We are dealing with evidences — We cannot thrust 

 aside actual evidence any more than we can accept 

 faulty evidence — Things are not true because we 

 wish them true; but neither are they false because 

 we wish them false — Intuitions of genius have a 

 value of their own — Cold-blooded, direct evidence 

 is vouched for — This, ultimately, will convince all 

 humanity. 



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Religion by /. Malcolm Bird . 267 



Psychical research represents a relation between 

 the ego and its universe — The controversy an open 

 one — Phenomena have always occurred, probably 

 always will — We must do our best to deal with 

 them — This paper deals with a single important 

 issue out of many. . . . Even a medium must eat 

 — Atmosphere of relaxation and ease necessary in 

 the seance room — When the entranced medium un- 

 dergoes dissociation of personality — Entities possess 



