SCIENCE AND THE SOUL.
Your leading article upon the above snW savours more of theology than of argument upon this controversial question. * claim you have wronged Sir Arthur KriH. fc stating that he had stated his case flkeicelieL He is reported to have said "scientists!.*! medical men are agreed that there is evidence to support the argument that tS spirit survives after the brain ~. lfn function." _ The analogy you contest is * matter quite apart from the I ask has anyone, or can anyone, believable light or evidence on a life tftj death? This is a question that has the mind of man from prehistoric is still unanswered. The stern fact remain* we have no evidence to prove that the «oh 3 survives after death. If it be bo in maT it is reasonable to believe that its survival i not confined to man, but was possessed W man's animal ancestors, and many other miM mammals, this not only among the hisW vertebrates, but also among the higher *Tticu~ lates. Omar Khayam's quatrain occur* to mr mind as apropos to this controversy: Strange, Is It not? That of an the myriads vW Before us pass'd the Door of Darkness ttaonZ Not one returns to tell us of the Which to discover we most travel, too. C. E. MAJOR,
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1928, Page 6
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