Science and immortality / by Sir William Osler.

  • William Osler
Date:
1918
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Credit: Science and immortality / by Sir William Osler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wit grows up by degrees, flourishes for a time, and at last decays, keeping the same pace with the changes that age and years bring into our body, which observes the same laws that flowers and plants do; what can we suspect, but that the soul of man, which is so magnificently spoken of amongst the learned, is nothing else but a tempera¬ ture of body, and that it grows and spreads with it both in bigness and virtues, and withers and dies as the body does, or at least that it does wholly depend on the body in its operations, and that therefore there is no sense nor perception of anything after death?” {Works, 4th ed., 1713, p. 225.) NOTE 14, p. 56 Human Personality, London, 1903. NOTE 15, p. 61 Noll, quoted by Beard, Review of Neurology and Psychiatry, January, 1904.
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