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First published January 1, 1925
“Persons are part of the everyday world with which science is concerned, and the conditions which determine their existence are discoverable. A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal, and that the organized energy of a living body becomes, as it were, demobilized at death, and therefore not available for collective action. All the evidence goes to show that what we regard as our mental life is bound up with brain structure and organized bodily energy. Therefore it is rational to suppose that mental life ceases when bodily life ceases. The argument is only one of probability, but it is as strong as those upon which most scientific conclusions are based. “
"هنالك احتمال أن تكون البشرية على عتبة عصر ذهبي، ولكن إذا كان هذا صحيحا فمن الضروري أولا قتل التنين الذي يحرص البوابة وهذا التنين هو الدين"!!.☄
" لولم نكن خائفين من الموت لما وجدت فكرة الخلود".⚱