God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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Some of the keenest-minded and best
informed persons, who studied the evidence
over many years in a highly critical spirit,
eventually came to the conclusion, that, in
some cases at least, only the survival
hypothesis remained plausible. Among such
persons may be mentioned Alfred Russel
Wallace, Sir William Crookes, F.W.H. Myers,
Ceasare Lombrozo, Camille Flammarion, Sir
Oliver Lodge, Dr. Richard Hodgson, Mrs.
Henry Sidgwick and Professor Hyslop, to
name only a few of the most eminent.
This suggests that the belief in a life after
death, which so many persons have found no
particular difficulty in accepting as an article
of religious faith, not only may be true but is
perhaps capable of empirical proof; and if so,
that, instead of the inventions of theologians
concerning the nature of the
post-mortem
life,
factual information regarding it may
eventually be obtained.
That, in such a case, the content of this information
will turn out to be useful rather than not, for the
