The Other Side of Death - A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Future Life, With a Study of Spiritualism #248605

IF universality of belief were really a guarantee of truth, then, indeed, would the belief in survival be yond death be entitled to rank as one of the best authenticated of human convictions. For in some form or another it is found with all peoples, even in those cases where it may reasonably be questioned Whether the belief in God exists. It has come to us through the ages, kept alive by the combined forces of the self-interest which attaches to all established institutions, and the love of speculation which is, after all, one of the worthiest of human endowments. We owe more to this quality than is at first sight apparent. And this last statement remains true even where the belief with which speculation busies itself is of little intrinsic value.