AN ETERNAL PROBLEM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19773, 22 February 1927, Page 2

AN ETERNAL PROBLEM

LIFE AFTER DEATH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTISTS CONFER. A score of subjects, ranging from the ' development of the perfect oyster to the immortality of the soul, were dis- | cussed by the international assembly of ' scientists at Philadelphia recently. • Mr. Heber Curtis, director of the Ali egheny Observatory, made the interest- ' ing suggestion that scientists should unite in efforts to prove that man’s ■ spirit lived after the body died. He expressed the conviction that man’s ’ spirit is as immortal as the prodigious j universe he inhabits, and that, since matter, energy, space, and time were continuous, it would appear to be strange if man were the only manifest- : ation in the universe to be annihilated ' after threescore years and ten. “There is a gap between world matter and world spirit,” he said, “which scien- ! tists will close when they prove the existence of the soul after death. The thing called the spirit of man mates new compounds, plays with the laws of chemical taction, guides the forces of the atom, changes the face of the earth, and gives life to new forms. i The v conclusion is that this soul, this mind, this creative spirit, cannot cease I to be.”