Victory CrownedExcerpt from Victory Crowned Our age is witnessing a great revival of interest in the future of life. The increasing number of books on the subject gives evidence of this, also the constant demand for such books in our public libraries. Many people are breaking away from traditional teachings concerning immortality and venturing to think for themselves. Others place significant emphasis on individual experience as the clue to right though on the subject. We are perhaps in danger of intellectual confusion, amidst the varied theories now under consideration. Whoso would trust himself to take inner or psychical experience as his guide, must have a standard by which to test all "intimations of immortality," and all interpretations of psychical experiences as supposed proofs of the future life. What is needed in the first place is a more intelligible way of thinking about the present mode of existence. If we cherish the idea that consciousness is a product of the brain, the soul a filmy appearance sometimes visible at death, we are likely to make little headway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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. |
