Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    flammantia mcznia mundi. That life, when it seems to us to leave our material bodies, re- mains as truly as ever associated with the ether which everywhere freely pervades them, is a doctrine which I have often heard ad- vanced. It is obvious that, were this doctrine capable of justification, a species of future existence would be possible. To this specula- tion I have given my best attention; and I think with the result of satisfactorily refuting it. It would, I fancy, lead me into too many purely scientific considerations were I now to give you my argument on this head, but it is ready at any time for such of you as care to hear it. I pass this speculation, therefore, with the one remark, that it cuts both ways, and gives quite as strong an argument for a pre- vious as for a future disembodied existence. And this, I think, will of itself, to most men, form an insuperable objection. For it is ob- vious to the majority of us that we have no consciousness of a previous state of existence; and therefore the being, who might be sup-
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