Science and immortality / by William Osler.

  • Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Science and immortality / by William Osler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2J chical activity analogous to the invisible yet powerful rays of the spectrum. The thousand activities of the bodily machine, some of them noisy enough at times, do not in health obtrude themselves upon our consciousness, and just as there is this enormous subconscious field of vegetative life, so there may be a vast supra-conscious sphere of astral life, the manifestations Henry of which are only now and then in evi- More dence, — a sphere in which, where all the nerve of sense is numb, in unconjectured inMemo- bliss or in the abyss of tenfold complicated riam’xcm change, the spirit itself may commune with others, “ Spirit to Spirit, Ghost to Ghost,” and do diverse wonders of which we are told in the volumes of the Society for Psy¬ chical Research, and which make us ex¬ claim with Montaigne, “ The spirit of man is a great worker of miracles.” Thirdly, the futile search of science for the spirits. It may be questioned whether more comfort or sorrow has come to the race since man peopled the unseen world with