Excerpt from The Consolations of Science: Or Contributions of Science to the Hope of Immortality and Kindred Themes
A word with the reader is asked before ho enters on the perusal of the following pages. While I have no apologies to offer for imperfections that may be found in the work, I am desirous that the benefits intended in my labors shall be realized. None will dispute that the subject treated is of the very greatest magnitude and interest, - the most difficult to properly treat, and one in respect to which there is the most intense solicitude.
My calling in life has supplied me a many-years' intimacy with the newly bereaved and the dying not alone, but with the thoughtful people not intimately in the presence of death. And it was from the voices of minds in those conditions that I was prompted to set about these labors.
It was also seen that many times where there exists the most serene confidence that all is well, there remain yearnings for still more definite light, - particularly from the facts of nature-from the established truths of science.
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