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ADRIFT ON AN ICE-PAN
“Brain and Personality,” by Dr. Thompson of New York, and also of the same subject in the light of a recent operation performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital by Dr. Harvey Cushing. The doctor had removed from a man’s brain two large cystic tumors without giving the man an anæsthetic, and the patient had kept up a running conversation with him all the while the doctor’s fingers were working in his brain. It had seemed such a striking proof that ourselves and our bodies are two absolutely different things.
Our eternal life has always been with me a matter of faith. It seems to me one of those problems that must always be a mystery to knowledge. But my own faith in this matter had been so untroubled that it
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