Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death

Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death

IN the long story of man's endeavours to understand his own environment and to govern his own fates, there is one gap or omission so singular that, however we may afterwards contrive to explain the fact, its simple statement has the air of a paradox. Yet it is strictly true to say that man has never yet applied to the problems which most profoundly concern him those methods of inquiry which in attacking all other problems he has found the most efficacious. The question for man most momentous of all is whether or no he has an immortal soul; orto avoid the word immortal, which belongs to the realm of infinitieswhether or no his personality involves any element which can survive bodily death. In this direction have always lain the gravest fears, the farthest-reaching hopes, which could either oppress or stimulate mortal minds. On the other hand, the method which our race has found most effective in acquiring knowledge is by this time familiar to all men. It is the method of modern Sciencethat process which consists in an interrogation of Nature entirely dispassionate, patient, systematic; such careful experiment and cumulative record as can often elicit from her slightest indications her deepest truths. That method is now dominant throughout the civilised world; and although in many directions experiments may be difficult and dubious, facts rare and elusive, Science works slowly on and bides her time,refusing to fall back upon tradition or to launch into speculation, merely because strait is the gate which leads to valid discovery, indisputable truth. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 38492
Author: Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Release Date: Jan 3, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Myers, L. H. (Leopold Hamilton), 1881-1944