THE FUTURE LIFE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 6 January 1913, Page 5

THE FUTURE LIFE.

A SCIENTIST’S CONFESSION. Mr J. Arthur Hill, in the “Bedrock” (Constable science quarterly), makes the following confession as to the survival of personality after death:— “I am not biassed in favour of a ‘future life’—more accurately, survival of personality. Ido not want any future life. 1 contemplate with something approaching dread and dismay the possibility that my personality will go on existing .and suffering after death. I should greatly prefer extinction, and it is extinction that I hope and long for. If I have been driven by sheer force of evidence to believe that personal survival is a lact, I can honestly say that it has been against my will. ' I had, and have, a strong ‘will to disbelieve,’ hut facts are facts, and some of the facts of my experience and that -of my intimate friends are, in my opinion, most rationally interpreted by the provisional hypothesis (I will not he driven further, even by facts) of discarnate minds still active and able to communicate. This forced conclusion, tentative though it is, I repeat, is profoundly distasteful to mo.”