CANDLE AND FLAME.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 6

CANDLE AND FLAME.

t wV U . la il elen^ fie it seems to me that Sir Arthur Keith's analogy of the goul and the candle flame is incomplete, if not untortunate. So far as I understand it, we are to behe\e that the brain originates what is termed the soul. If Sir A. Keith's candles originate the flame by which they give light I wish he would tell me the brand he tt£ Ue have to use a match for those supplied to us now. This being so, I am, for the present, compelled to believe that the sonl is supplied by some outside agency. Then, too, the famous scientist seems to wish us to believe that the brain uses the soul it. has begotten. If the analogy is true it is the candle which uses tha flame, oddly enough, for its own destruction. Observing the doings of a candle even as I write, I am under the impression that the flame is using the candle. Being unscientific, I may, of course, be wrong. Sir A Keith, I think, took -a leap in the dark when he spoke of the candle going out. What if we light another candle from the last flicker of the greas\ mess in the socket? The point which scientists would have then to decide would be whether a new candle means a new flame, or is it the old flame transferred to another agent for use": With our present limited knowledge of the ether and its probable endless possibilities for transmitting the impalpable, it would appear to me that to deny the existence of the soul 011 a purely physical basis would be just as unscientific as to trv to establish it on such. A SOUL AFLAME.