PSYCHICAL RESEARCH.
To the Editor of the "Timaru Herald '' Sir, —With your permission I should like to ask "Veritas'' for an explanation of «liis statement "that we feel ourselves indestructible." .1 certainly was under the impression that our i'eeiings tended-, to the very reverse of th:s Onr cemeteries are a Jiving witness to ..tho mortality of man. showing that death is ;l solemn reality, not a reero "phase of earthly life," that it is man's great enemy from which i;o desires to he delivered, an enemy/that is unrelenting and "impartial, the blight of all human prospects and thefull stop to every form of existence, and apart from resurrect on to life again there is no future life. His affirmation that 'the veriest savage knows of a life that is to come after" is not borne cut by fact. The savago may think that such is the ease, hut the mere thinking so is not proof that is is true. Scientists and many others have tried to solve this Question and liavo to admit that science can afford no answer to the question "If a man die, .shall he live again?" and apart from the Bible it cannot be answered. T'lie remarks of "Veritas" that death docs not change tho real person is on- a. par with his others, and certainly needs a more lucid explanation.—l am etc.. J.'KING.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15393, 9 July 1914, Page 9
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