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from all delusive imaginations of a world above sus a “ d 
Of us, or Of a so-called /“ ^^"nd endeavours to the 
naturally directed with all our “living, and feel the 
present, or to the world in w Qur ^f e as beautifully 
necessity of arranging ™ for t p e individual and for 
and advantageously as poss 1 J safe to shield ourselves 
the whole 1 1 £ ot °o « „ But it is simply an 
against all de We ( > S puture » a delusive imagma- 
assumption to call the s dealing with the question of 
tion ; and reason will say that in Wing ^ ^ £ , g specu . 
immortality, man is cer y ^ B know science so as to 
la ting on the times when people of the scientist 
observe law and when tto ^ in immorta lity because 
shall he reached, i g , i o-ivpn can no more he in 
strict scientific evld ®* ce ,k““ t o ign ore the predicted eclipse 
harmony with be produced. To confine 
because moral evidence ' could t “ P t is simp l y an 
onr forces and endeavours ^ demand thought. The 
impossibility. Both pa t which human energies run are 
circles of practical lit from every point of which 
comprehended by a wider ■ cue ^ ™“ealities. The less can- 
aspiration rises and touche P g neM cannQt an nihilate the 
not exclude the greate . politics and commerce 
remote. There are wants felt whichjo ^ science that 
and philosophy and science wVli ther,” cannot satisfy 
“ reveals no whence and hints no w , ^ ^ freeulg 
reason. Bdip°n d°M both. A^d ^ ^ make life more 
ourselves of the ldea ° f . ; ly gratuitous assumption, 
beautiful and prosperous is P ? | rience allow us to say 
Will history, will observation, > H fro m their thoughts 
that men who have “^uded 1 i f Tq ^ society; thought 
have ever done much to heautity future _ Even the men 
must find a fulcrum in 1 appeal from the judgment 
who profess to live for the p > strength and calmness 
of to-day to that of to-morrow Biichne r seeks 
they need a future of some sort. „ wh gn we die we do not 
it after his own fashion. J ' nal consciousness, or the 
lose ourselves hut only. ^ i ^itself eternal and imperishable, 
casual form winch nature, in our race, 
had assumed for a short tim, in our deeds, m our 
in our children, m oui material and physical consti- 
thouglits,— m short, in tie en gona i existence we have 
tution which during on mankind and of nature in 
furnished to the substance^ of vh y say " «* 
