Science and immortality / by Sir William Osler.

  • Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919.
Date:
1918
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Credit: Science and immortality / by Sir William Osler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be in the right with those who deny altogether the life after death ; and this is my own confessio fidei. Immortality is a complex prob¬ lem, difficult to talk about, still more difficult to write upon with any measure of intelligence or consistency. Like Simias, in the Phaedo Golden Dialogue of the great master, a majority of sensible men will feel oppressed by the greatness of the subject and the feebleness of man, and it is with these feelings I close this simple objective state¬ ment of some of the existing con¬ ditions of thought.