Making of man : a study in evolution / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1924
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    with keen interest, and are always ready to help, when we are willing to receive help : not only ready, but able; though, of course, their powers are limited, and, like us, they can but do the best that is possible undci the circumstances. It is not to be supposed, moreover, that every influence on that side is unmitigatedly good : there may be evil influences too, in fact there are. And if we are willing to open our minds to them, we can experience deterioration, and go backward instead of forward. The responsibility is ours. We have free-will : we are able to choose. And all the exertions of good people, both on this side and on that, are directed to guide and influence us to choose what is best for our true welfare. This is commonplace. But I would have the whole thing regarded as commonplace. It ought to be part of common knowledge, the whole of it. Like all human things it has quite a simple aspect : that is why unlearned and comparatively simple people have been able to get hold of it in advance of the scribes. Those eminent men who deny the possibility of continued existence, are forming their opinions on mistaken