Excerpt from The Immortal Life: Belief in It Warranted on Rational Grounds
Several works have recently been given to the public of Man's Immortality, - works of far greater learning and ability than the author of this can think of claiming. He attempts a humbler task, - that of stating, and, so far as seems necessary, of establishing, certain facts which, taken in their proper connection, may not only warrant belief in immortality, but may make the denial of it irrational. The subject is here treated inductively and on purely rational grounds. The facts which are the basis of the argument are those which prove the greatness and worth of man, - as seen in his interpretation of nature, in the marvellous character of his environment, and his kinship and ethical relation to God as the moral Governor of the world. Sometimes a clear and consecutive statement in a court of justice of facts bearing on the case in trial, is sufficient to determine the verdict, without eloquence or special pleading by the counsel, the facts carrying with them their own logic.
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