Sir-Holders of the belief that present day man "passes on" after death to another existence must extend that belief to cover man at all stages of his evolution. They cannot limit it to homo sapiens only. Nor can they logically exclude all other life in its myriad manifestations of a million or so species. The infant that expires almost with its first breath-this, too, must "pass on" to a future experience. Such claims collapse under the weight of their own absurdity, Reason will have none of it. As the poet James Thompson puts it: This little life is all we must endure, e grave’s most holy peace is ever sure. We fall asleep and never wake again; Nothing is of us but the mouldering flesh, Whose elements dissolve and merge afresh In air, water, plants and other men. This is immortality-or "passing on," in the only comprehensible sense.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 784, 30 July 1954, Page 5
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