Excerpt from Immortality: The Principal Philosophic Arguments for and Against ItN the Immediate sense, this is writ ten responsive'ly to the urgent request of an agnostic friend. In a sense that is far from remote, it is written too for the benefit of all doubters. I should not im pose upon myself this task, if it did not seem reasonably certain to me that, when completed, it will be helpful to at least a few who have thought themselves out into hopelessness. Thls Is presumptious, I know, but I find justification in the facts first, that I know as much about the mat ter as any other man, and second, that my mode of presenting it may have peou liar advantages.It is my purpose to be perfectly fair in the treatment of this mighty problem. This will be easy for me, for, being an ag nostic myself, I shall be hampered by no doctrinal, nor partisan bias. Although I do not know immortality to be a fact, I feel that I know a great many nearly in contestable reasons why it should be a fact.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.