steadily grown stronger with man's mental development. ----

No man looks at death without looking beyond it. None but has a
craving for a future life, with consciousness of his personality
AND WITH RECOLLECTION OF FRIENDS, FACES AND DEEDS HERE.

Say to a man, "You shall be immortal, but you shall not know that
you are you." He will not give you thanks for such immortality.

So strong is man's craving for personal, individual immortality
that hell with its fires would be preferred by many to
annihilation. The strongest argument against immortality--weak
and ignorant at best--is but a frantic attempt of the mind to
prove negatively the existence of what it covets.

Fortunately for human happiness in general, FAITH, covers the
requirements of millions. They live and die contented, the
instinct within them fortified by the teachings of a faith not to
be questioned. ----

But what of the men and women who ask for evidence, or at least
for plausible argument, proving the reasonableness of
immortality? What can be said to please them?

Not much, alas! Probably because we are still so undeveloped
that it would be, for many reasons, unsafe to let us know how
great a future is before us. Strongest in hope is the
argument of Charles Fourier, based on what he declared to be
a natural law.