Publisher's Synopsis
This book is a direct reprint of the original. One cannot too strongly emphasize the fact that belief in the continuance of life after death is far from being peculiar to Christianity. If it were peculiar to Christianity, its authority and its consolation as a belief might be much less than they are. Death is definite, obvious, apparently final in its action upon the individual. The conception of life going on after this ruin of death has taken place is startling and opposed to the law of probability, as set up by what the hand touches and what the eye rests upon, of the dead.
