X Natural Salvation. 



To answer this question fully, would require a careful 

 presentation of the later discoveries touching the nature 

 of "matter." It will, therefore, be better to reserve it 

 for a paper which is to appear in the next edition of 

 Natural Salvation, for 1907. 



Critics are of many types and tempers. Not a few con- 

 demn what their fellows approve. 



" Who would want to live for centuries in a world like 

 this ! " writes " one who dissents." " Three score years 

 and ten is quite enough of it. Too much. Think of the 

 horrible monotony of a thousand years of human life. It 

 is a frightful picture. The Lord deliver us from such as 

 you ! So far from encouraging an effort like yours, . it 

 should be summarily stopped, if not by an indignant pub- 

 lic sentiment, then by government interference ; that is, 

 if there were the slightest danger of your bringing about 

 such a calamity. I am happy to think there is not. 

 Human life will never be much prolonged, for the very 

 good reason that it ought not to be. It is not worth it ; 

 and nature will probably look out for that. So I do not 

 fear you. Death is as much a part of the great scheme of 

 things as Life. It is the other part of the great Plan. 

 But lo and behold, a little dying mortal now thinks that 

 he is going to change it all ! It is enough to make the 

 angels weep, and the devils laugh ! " 



