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It is rather remarkable that the majority of learned men have closed their minds to what seemed bare and simple facts to many people.
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)
Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)
It is not the germ cell itself, but the bodily accretion or appendage, which is abandoned by life, and which accordingly, dies and decays.
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)
I am as convinced of continued existence, on the other side of death, as I am of existence here.
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)
Microscopic organisms may have troublesome and destructive effects, but in themselves they can be be studied with interest and avidity.
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is. We change our state at birth, and come into the world of air and sense and myriad existence; we change our state at death and enter a region of—what?
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)
Every great revelation is likely to have been foreshadowed in more or less imperfect forms, so as to prepare our minds and make ready the way for complete perception hereafter. It is probable that the human race is quite incompetent to receive a really great idea the first time it is offered.
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)
Our memories are thronged with the past; our anticipations range over the future; and it is in the past and the future that we really live. It is so even with the higher animals: they too order their lives by memory and anticipation.
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)