the window, the window is the cause of it; hence no other cause is needed, no sun! Thus, my young friend, if you had not seen the sun for yourself, you might believe that there is not a sun at all. In both instances, the fallacy of the deduction or conclusion is obvious. Just as certainly as there is a sun, so certainly, does man possess an immortal soul, with an independent existence of its own.
3. The conviction of all nations bears witness to the immortality of the human soul; it is inscribed by the hand of nature in the heart of every man in characters which can never be effaced. Nature can never deceive. False representations concerning the future life of the soul by no means prove that it is not immortal.
This belief in the immortality of the soul may indeed be dislodged from the head, but never torn out of the heart. "It is difficult," a simple person once remarked to me, "to believe that those whom we love do not merely die, but are dissolved into nothingness." And, truly, all our feelings rise in revolt and the voice we hear within us protests against the assumption that death is annihilation.
4. No, no, thus it can not be: there shall be a " Wiedersehen" of our kindred; we shall meet again those whom we have loved and lost. If, indeed, there were no such future meeting, we should be justified in raising an accusing voice to Heaven, and exclaiming: "Thou hast deceived us by implanting affections within our breast which are only doomed to be disappointed!" Is, then, everything to be ended at the close of this short life, so replete often with suffering, and is only nothingness to remain! Are love and friendship to be mere
