George Eliot s Jubal. The effect of lifes brevity on its value. Death good for life only as it promises life beyond. The moral action of immortality on life due to the enhanced value of personality. I AM not proposing to speak about the grounds In this life of a belief In another, but about the reaction of that belief upon this life. It Is not a question about the basis of a belief In I mmortality, but about I ts moral rebound. We often hear from pulpits of the effect of this life on the next; but this is not a pulpit, and what we are now to dwell on is rather the reaction of the next life on this. Sometimes we are bidden to turn from considering what we do for posterity to realize what posterity does for us which is much. Mr. Benjamin KI dd lectured in 1906 at the Royal Institution on this subject, The significance of the Future in the theory of organic evolution. Well, It Is
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