The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-03
Is Life Continuous
 After Death !?


 even 50 much as a comma in our ex- istence. then nothing else matters much. We shall have another chance to live up to-or down to-our ideals, which hamper us in this sphere of activity.
 For millions of industrial slaves, no more lifelong sodden toll for the pitiful guerdon of a decrepit shelter, inadequate food, and shoddy raiment
 The slave of heredity and environ ment-'dumb brother to the OK may have his opportunity to develop into 8 Spinoza, Whitman, or Wag- ner when the veil is rent from the souls clear eyes.
 That for which he hungered fruit lessly may-in another Hfe-be his to achieve.
 If, on the contrary. we are mo other than a moving row of magic Show Shapes'-"Bubbles, which the Eternal Saki is pouring, and will pour; if the revelations of the Prop hets and Devout arc "but stories which, awoke from Sleep. they told their comrades, and to Sleep return ed," it were but a miserable farce contrived for the entertainment of the Demon of Injustice.
 But how are we to know-whom shall we believe? We grope through the religious writings of the world for | something definite-something which will satisfy. Ever more 'come we out by the same door wherein we I went"
 The Bible, Talmud. Zend-avesta, i the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads, swedenborg. The Book of Kings. Book of the Dead, The. Koran-all contain a philosophy. sometimes picturesque wonderfully appealing as philo- | sophy. but perhaps not more so than | the golden pages of Plato, Marcus Aurelius. or Seneca.
 Ducalion and Phyrra, Adam and | Eve, Hadami and Heva, The Virgin Mary. Isis, Christ, Horus and Osiris, Guatama, Confucius. Ormuzed-al inextr!cably mixed.
 volney, voltaire. Hume. Tyndall l Ingersoll, Bradlaugh, Huxley, Spencer, Darwin and Humboldt, finally leave us in the arms of Force and Matter and Haeckers Riddle of the Universe. where all that seems OK plainable is explained.
 When our loved ones sng-white- faced-beneath the dark waters of the Mystic River of Death-we reverently carry out aspirations for them to tho Burning Chat of Dead Hopes. Fortunately this experience is not universal. Perhaps-in some great life crisis a messenger from the other Shore of Existence may bring to pass a miracle, through physical influences l and stimuli upon pathological pro- cesses.
 Krafft-Ebbing, MolI, LieabauIt. Hudson, Bernheim and Schrenk-Not- zing explain the modus operandi of of the profound law of suggeseion-- only now it comes from a decarnate intelligence who can vibrate with, and reach, the sub-consciousness of the one for whom the miracle is wrought. ! Prodigies in healing of some what similar character are enacted every little while at the shrines of St. Anne de Beaupre and Lourdes; on the banks of the Sacred River Ganges; by the Black Stone of the Khableh: in the psychological clinics at Salt Petrie and Nancy; through the treat ment of the Christian Scientists-all accomplished by the restoration of the osmotic equilibrium-the conversion of pathological (where it is not gross) into physiological processes, by the principle of therapeutic suggestion.
 And this leads us to the one de- finite, certain means of establishing knowledge of continuity of life.
 When Mesmer, Dr. Braid-and fin- ally Charcot, Ochorowitz, and a host of experimenters and investigators demonstrated the existence and won derful activities of the subliminal mind, they opened the door for the entrance of the magnificent truth that since the mode of motion of the ego the subconscious undergraduates &C., tivity through material means Qevita- tion. telekenesis, etc.) the mind, Ur soul, must be material.
 It is automatic that pure force, apart from matter, is inconceivable; also, that matter-apart from a mode of motion-is also inconceivable. Force and matter are indissolubly as- sooiated. This being true, it follows. that the force which Profs. Crooks, Lombroso and Myslop reported as re- sponsible for divers physic pheno- mena, must be associated with mat ter-of kind. And if material, it is ndestructible-in other words, ina- mortal. So the poets splendid guess that touch of a vanished hand" does not erninate from the gateway of dream. Under certain condi. tions, we fell that touch-it.i is actual