THE FUTURE LIFE

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1928, Page 3

THE FUTURE LIFE

St lEX I LSI’S’ CHALL E X G E . (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, .May 11. Sir Oliver Lodge has taken up immediately .Sir Arthur Keith's challenge to the belief in the future life*. “ [ think the brain is the. iusi nnnenl used by the mind. Physiologists think the Brain is the mind. H the brain is the mind, then when one is destroyed the other is destroyed. A violin, manifests Beethoven Jfiut that is not the same thing as being Beethoven. If we smash a violin we do not kill music. AY lint happens is the instrument can no longer manifest it. 1 say the brain, as any form of matter, cannot evolve Shakespeare or his sense of meaning hut merely manifests it like a typewriter.

Doctors know a terrible lot about the working of human machinery. ft is the other aspects they have not attempted to understaud.Y Wherein we agree to differ, they do not accept evidence there is about the survival ot the spirit. They look at it from another viewpoint, because they think the biaiu and mind are one and the same thing. Sir John Blade 'Sutton, n famous surgeon, supports Sir Arthur Keith ami says: 'Death is the end of us all an endless sleep. Everybody who lias studied it' scientifically and deeply has come to the same conclusion.”

Professor Delisle Burns, doubts whether Sir Arthur Keith lias boon looking at the evidence and says: “ It Is undeniable there are activities in experience which are not the same type of materials and objects.

Sir Richard Gregory says: "Sir Arthur Keith weighs and measures brains in bis laboratory, but be cannot measure the weight of spirit, therefore lie is not concerned about it. and does not know if there is no spirit. I am certain in my knowledge of Sir Artmir Keith and his great ability, that he does not mean to deny the existence ot something which cannot at present ho demonstrated. Sir Arthur Keith, when it was pointed out to him that a controversy lmd been aroused by bis statement, repeated there is no evidence that the brain was a dual organ of substance and spirit but lie does not think the substance destroys the belief in immortality “ Religion has no bearing on our tAchiim Wo are simply out to discover and understand the human body and find the exact way of curing disease. All other things are side issue...