Excerpt from Whither a Study of Immortality
The boon most earnestly desired by the average human heart is immortality - the assurance of it. More thousands of books have been written about it than about any other thing. If a man finds that he does not desire immortality he may know that therein he differs from the average and normal man. A threatened future of long continued punishment is less unwelcome than the prospect of annihilation. Hope whispers the possibility of relief from suffering in some remote age. Hope dies when it faces oblivion. Whenever we turn to that which comes after the change which men call death, the aspiration rises, even though silently, for one sure word from the silence whence we come and to which we return.
These pages discuss this question of immortality. They do not deal with any theological doctrine as such. They do not seek to differ with the tenets of any religious belief.
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