Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-22
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Late one night in June two men, a
medical student and young lawyer
sat discussing more things than Hora
ito dreamed of in his philosophy.
'Can you think" said Graham, the
lawyer, that there is absolutely no ex-
iatence Of any vital principal apart from
the physical functions that stop with
death? will never believe that there
is not something behind all that that
something that looks out of the eyes
that intangible, incomprehensible
something; that I or that you which
only uses human eyes or voice to ex
press itself"
"All that has been discovered to be
nothing but combination more or less
complicated of brain cells returned
Fielding, the student. eff you had
gone into that sor5 of thing as I have,
you would see that it is all reducible to
matter. A few more steps and there
will be no more questions of spirit, even
for such idealists as you. Touch one
spot IN the brain Of a genius and you
Will have a gibbering idiot. Lift a bit
OF bone from an idiots brain and you
can educate your man Of genius"
Graham shook his head.
g have seen too many Deaths" con-
tinued Fielding, "sand too many dissec-
lions not to be positively assured that
the vital essence is extinct with death.
Why, just look at it, how many trif;ng
accidents put an end to a mans exist
ence. Stop his heart, take away few
pounds of blood, destroy his digestion,
and you have destroyed him, I say.
The necessary combination of forces to
work his machinery has been disar-
ranged, and he stops for good
and au. I grant you for
some it is hard enough to give
UP the idea of soul but most people
VIII be glad to welcome humiliation as
[ do. No, we are born and we die, and
there's the end"
Graham smoked silently and forsome
time, and looked out of the open win
dow on the brilliant moonlight that
dimmed half the stars
"A night for lovers" he remarked
presently.
Who believe in Immortality for one
night only" laughed Fielding. "What
nonsense it seems that the reflected
light of dead world, and the twinkling
of few live suns, millions of leagues
away, should make people ready to die
for each other, when they laugh at the
idea after their own sun rises"
you incorrigible materialist!" cried
Graham, why do people marry every
day?"
Habit, example and the conditions
Of the race. One woman is as good as
another If she is healthy and sweet
tempered"
Poor Tom Carroll doesn't think SO
where Dora Varian is concerned" said
Graham with short laugh.
Eyes, and in two years Tom Carroll
will have forgotten her refusal and her
existence, under the comfortable regime
of some indiferently pretty housekeep-
er whom accident will saddle on him
as wife and mother of his children"
"I don't know why she wanted to
throw Tom over" said Graham, looking
at the end Of his cigar with slight
frown. what merciless firt she isl
It would not have been so bad il she
hadn't taPen him away from another
girl. I wonder if she has any heart at
ALP"
kSIG = u SACJJUICs 41ES Liz. 6dlO L 1Olu-
ing, carelessly. "These men work up
speeches out of novels, and play de-
voice, and it amuses her. It would
amuse me-"
You don't know her well, do you?"
said Graham. 81 don't believe, if you
did, you could keep out of her clutches.
But she viii find her match at last, I
have no doubt. Those women dosuffer
sometimes"
Ell wager you what you like" cried
Fielding, that Dora Varian and I will
play at love in the most artistic way,
and separate at the end, neither of us
the worse for the game"
II viii make no wager" said Graham,
briefly; but ncne the less [ am sure
that you Will either marry, or one of you
will repent it,
Fielding had never been one of the
Young men about town. He was seldom
iured into ballroom, and never into
the pleasure parties where people meet
SO much more agreeably than under the
lighted chandeliers. Now it was noticed
that he was losing his retired
habits TO talk to Dora Varian,
and it was not long before
one was seldom seen without She other.