LECTURE ON IMMORTALITY.
; i ;,>%r v v'-;-:■■•V'vv-,- ' •A lecture wds delivefSd by.'Professor Hunter' to'the iWcJlingtoa Library: and Ethical Club oij Fnday cvenmg oiv." An Interpretation of' Immortality and- ,its,\ Ethical Bearings." The" ' lecturer Mid the .'potent /idea of the question. was . tnjit immortality; meant a continuity of ; personal. irLfluencex-arid experience, and. had its origin. probaUly in. tno phenomena of dreams,': \yhen : the soul .was supposed to depart from the body and go .through ordinary • experience .without tho aid.: of the material; part of the, pijfpori. Then . came the as- , Boeiation .Of. tljq, .lifo after: death with the of .regard and mjnishment; and , this; the lecttri'er maintained, was not a good -influence.' There was no evidence from any. point of-.view'fof a continued personal exis--tcnce' after: dfcath, the best view being that of doing the -possible here without regard .to the baser motive of fear, on which, said ~ tho lecturer—old-time theology was largely built. . ' ;
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 260, 27 July 1908, Page 11
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