MIND, SPIRIT, AND SOUL
MANIFESTATIONS OF LIVING BRAIN ALL CEASE TO EXIST? (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Thursday. In the course of a lecture at Manchester University, Sir Arthur Keith, the great authority on man, said scientists and medical men agreed that there is no evidence to support the assumption that the spirit survives after the brain ceases to function. “If we withhold the supply of oxy-
gen or fuel from the brain it ceases to act,” said the lecturer. “Medical men can find no grounds for believing that the brain is a dual organ or a compound substance. “Every fact known to them compels the inference that the mind, the spirit and the soul are manifestations of the living brain, just as a flame is the manifest spirit of a burning candle. Both flame and spirit cease to exist at the moment of their extinction.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 351, 11 May 1928, Page 1
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