HUMAN IMMORTALITY: ITS POSITIVE ARGUMENT
WITH REFERENCE TO THE INGERSOLL LECTURE OF PROFESSOR JAMES
In offering you to-night some words on the
great question of human immortality, I enjoy the
advantage of the interest awakened by the essay
of my brilliant friend from Harvard, read a few
months ago in this room.[1] The memory of that
noble evening lives with you, I doubt not, still
undimmed, and long will live, as it lives and long
will live with me. The thoughts then stirred
within you, I can count upon as having waked
many another of those questions which haunt us
concerning the mystery of life; and I may feel
assured of your sympathy when I now attempt
to renew their current.
I may assume, I judge, that some of you not only felt regarding immortality the difficulties which our guest addressed himself to obviating, but were also
- ↑ The essay was read before the Berkeley Club of Oakland, California, in April, 1899. Professor James had read his Ingersoll Lecture to the same company in September, 1898.
