Excerpt from Death: The Meaning and ResultIt may be that man looks upon death in a wrong light. Instead of its being an implacable enemy, is it not possible that it is a considerate friend? Many think it is not a part of nature as originally planned, but a factor brought about by man himself through disobedience of divine law. They believe man to have been per fect in the start, and designed to live in his body of ¿esh eternally, but fell from the perfect state and incurred death. They believe in special crea tion, and claim to hold the key to the situation here and hereafter. Others believe that man is a creature evolved from the lower orders of crea tion and is continually getting better intellectual ly, morally and spiritually, and that physical death is as much a factor in the economy of na ture, as originally planned, as physical birth. Some say that death ends all, others, that it is a birth into another condition of life. By far the greater number, however, say they don't know, but wish they did.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.