WHY THIS FEAR OF DEATH?
“ Humanity has given itself unmeasured extra misery by regarding death as an abnormal terror peculiar ti itself.” writes Mr Henry Wright in the “Inquirer.” “We rejoice at birth yet we shudder at death. Hut surely one is as normal as the other? If ! this were not so we should long ago i have ceased to inflict new births on humanity! . . . Wo find ourselves as part of an order in which, in the very nature of things, we are an inseparable part, and of which we see the ultimate objective is always this, that by the death of the individual comes its rebirth into the universal life. Science has now carried us so iar in aid of this view that all that is now needed to end the unceasing and unreasoning dread of death is application of logic to our discoveries, and the withdrawal of imagination from the subject, seeing that it has been to imagination that the fearsomeness of humanity is owing.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1928, Page 4
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167WHY THIS FEAR OF DEATH? Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1928, Page 4
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