He makes them a vital part of so many scenes that we cannot help concluding that their existence to him was not open to question. So like a waking. Although spiritualism is not accepted by metaphysical Christians in the terms in which it is presented by its exclusive followers, it is a question of psychology and must be explained by those who teach Truth. Shakespeare did not teach religion but the facts of life as he saw them. The continuous existence of man after death of the body is one of the facts of man's spiritual life and should be so recognized and its place defined in psychology.
Religion is concerned primarily with spiritual things, the psychical world is secondary.
The mind I sway by and the heart I bear Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear. Shakespeare was familiar with all the superstitions of his age. Yet the fallacy of such concepts of mortality was usually pointed out. A man of such feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. . . . Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves.