THE HOPE · OF IMMORTALITY BY THE ames dword Cowell REV. J. E. c. WELLDON, 1854 – Head Master of Harrow School New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. All rights reserved PREFACE THE circumstances in which this Essay has been written will account more or less for its character. Some time ago the publishers invited me to write a book upon the subject of Immortality. They thought that such a book, if addressed to the intelligence and information not of theological experts especially, but of educated men men and women in general, would not be without a certain value, as showing how much of all that renders human life sublime and sacred is involved in the belief that Man is an immortal being. The consciousness that I did not possess, and amidst my duties could scarcely hope to acquire, the knowledge necessary for the task so kindly laid upon me, made me hesitate to undertake it; but it coincided with my own interests and studies, and with the reflexions that had long been present to my mind, and I could not (RECAP) 2 963 V JAN -31917 379575reop.s: |