Excerpt from The Heart of Things When years are with us, and their outward marks are upon us, and again and again we have given both friends and kin to the unanswering tomb, the Silence grows appalling and with sorrow and dismay we realize, as never in youth or prime, the paucity, aye, the absence of such proofs of soul survival as would quite convince our doubting moments, or leave the sceptic without an argument. No longer do the majority look to the sides as the abode of the happy dead, for has not the astronomer ...
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Excerpt from The Heart of Things When years are with us, and their outward marks are upon us, and again and again we have given both friends and kin to the unanswering tomb, the Silence grows appalling and with sorrow and dismay we realize, as never in youth or prime, the paucity, aye, the absence of such proofs of soul survival as would quite convince our doubting moments, or leave the sceptic without an argument. No longer do the majority look to the sides as the abode of the happy dead, for has not the astronomer assured them that in constitution all worlds are greatly alike, and fiery youth and desolate, frozen age are the beginning and end of every sphere? As for inter planetary and inter-stellar space, their temperature of absolute zero is no Cheering prospect to Whoever would people them with disembodied beings, the angelic host Whose numbers the living yet Shall swell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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