Newark post., 1912-11-27
THE QUESTION
OF IMMORTALITY

beauty, love, and noble thought, what
has that to do with the hope of immor-
talitv, If matter is indeed goi; IL II
can have developed the love of mother
for her child and the thought which
burIS an electric message across the
ocean: If it has developed this body so
Wonderfully and made the delicate i'm
pulses of sex attraction, may not this
great deity, Matter, have also developed
worlds unseen. but as real as is the un-
seen ether which breaks its waves in day
Hght on this world: have developed a
finer body within this physical form we
bear, in which the self, escaping at the
moment of death, may dwell as marvel
ouslv as in this! 1t will not do to make
matter 50 powerful as to originate the
Sermon on the Mount, the BeatitudeS,
and the death on Calvary, and at the
same time deny its lofty intelligence. 1t
will not do to say that the great gol,
Matter could create the body of electrl-
city in a Leydcn jar and the mind to
make that kind of electricity repeat our
conversations over Il thousand miles Of
wire and deny it the power to use simi-
lar forces in world unseen where We
may dwell If matter has created a seen
boly in which we live and think, it may
have at the same time created an unseen
body in which we may love and think,
and the psychic phenomena which exist
in such abundance in this world inaI
Gates that there are unseen people in IN
seen bodies. But. says DR.. Shafer, the
body does not die all at once. Part of it
may he kept alive for months, cut out and
put in Jars; therefore, the life is not a
unit and the soul can not survive death.
| reply that it is no necessary part of
the theory of continued life after death
that we should take the physical life OF
the organs Of the body with us. 1t is
quite conceivable that the contact Of the
self, the ego, the soul, is not with the
organs of the body, but with the life of
those organs; that the moving of the
hand, for example, is not caused by the
effect OF the mind on the hand but by the
effect of the mind on the life in the hand.
We may be each an individual dwelling
in a temple built out of the material
world, a temple endowed with merely
animal life; ourselves being the united
mind and spirit which we call the soul
As long as a spirit within us lives and
loves, as long as we do now think an,
act, it is illogical to say that ourselves
are mere products of matter because the
servant neafC anu DfdlU anu ll\tf an,
the rest have a life which still remains
when we are gone and the body is
dead. - The very fact that the body
is dead though each organ may possibly
prove to be still alive with certain in
ferior kind of life, proves that the rea
self is not identical with these, or will
matter. The still form growing col,
when death has come, though every par
still have the unthinking, mere anima
life, shows that something great has de
parted, and no man can say that the lift
which has departed does not exist
DR.. Shafer can take no account of thu
mass of evidence which shows that th
material world is not all. The apparen
communication and manifestation from
departed spirits which Alfred Russell
Wallace found, convincing him of a lif
unseen after death; the phenomena whicl
convinced Lombroso, the greatest skepti
in Europe, which has been declared b.
; the greatest Of scientists as too importan