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TE find no difficulty in speaking frankly to children about some very sur- prising facts, such as broad- casting and the roundness of the earth. We do not find it su easy to tell them about hu- man reproduction and human denth.
ourselves
This means that we have psychological resistances which prevent us from thinking clearly --about-such-matters--
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Our ancestors identified life with breathing, "Spirit” is only a Lalin word for breath. We are now opt to identify it with the heart-beat, und every time that a man or wo- man whose heart has stopped for in few minutes recovers again, some- one writes that the dead huve been restured to life. These views are far more materialistic
than any which I hold. The heart is only a pump for blood, and the lungs means of exposing it to air. We can already keep the rest of an animal alive for some hours with an artificial heart and lungs, and It is only question of time before this is done with a man. One of the moin dificulties is to prevent the blood from clotting in the artificial heart.
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The facts about life are much enore complicated. The opposite to a machine, which is built up of re- *pinceable païts, is an individunt, which cannot be taken to bils and put together again. Now man is A compromise between the two.
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We can do a certain amount of replacement with spare parts, as when we transfuse a quart of one nan's blood into another, But man is only to some extent a ma- „chine,.sowe.cannul_do_very_much replacement of this kind. And when we say that a man is dead we mean that his individuality hag ceased rather thru that his ma chinery has stopped working, even though the two events generally go together.
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future life for the individual, though they do not offer a very cheerful prospect to those persons who ne most interested in their own l- dividualities. Other religions pro- mnise the ultimate extinction of in- dividuality as the greatest possible blessing..
1 have some sympathy with this view. If I lve for another ty years I expect that most of my ne quaintances will be heartily tired of me, and i shall very probably be rather tired of myself. If we are to bellove Freud, we all carry within us a secret longing for death, which at most times we re-
consciousness.
Against the theory_that_on_J_press_below the surface of our divisible something, the soul, leaves the body at the moment of death," is the experience of brain surgery. An American surgeon has studied The effect on severat people," include: ing his own alster of removing targe parts of the, front of the brain aflei injury or the growth of a tumour.
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This causes no appreciable loss of sensation, memory, muscular power, but there is a very real loss of initiative. One patient could look after her household on ordin ary occasions, but could not order large dinner; another could keep a sinple job, but could not set about looking for a new one. "He will never make a revolutionary" says our author. If the totalitarian State proves a success, perhaps this operation will be performed on everyone execpt dictators..
Let me explain. When you are dead, I can take some of your white blood corpuscles and grow them in a suitable Buid, certainly for weeks, perhaps for many years. I knew enough I could do the same with many of your other tis- This is already possible with the cells of embryo chicks or rats. For some hours after you are dead there is still lie in your body.
alone merely the But it is not your life, life of your cells. If I had mur- dered you it would be no defence to point to a culture of your cells, and say that you were still alive. There would be life there, but nol your life.
As the brain is destroyed the personality gradually fades out, until a baby born with no upper parts to its brain shows less signs of consciousness than a fish, let rabbit or dog, though it may live for a year. If there is a de- tachable soul, It can certainly be detached bit by bit, and all that is specially human in it may be Iost long before death.
To many It seems more reason- able to regard the soul as a function of the co-operating brain-cells, just of a as a concert performance symphony, which, like the soul, has a unity of fis own, is a function of the co-operating members of an orchestra. dead. The
One can kill a rabbit by a blow on the neck and take out its heart. If the heart is kepi warn and sup plied with the right solution and plenty of oxygen it will go on best- ing for hours. The heart is alive, though the rabbit is
same is true of human Hearts, which have occasionally been taken out and kept alive for some time after their owners' death.
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What is this individuality which comes to an end at death? Is i something outside the lives of the ports, and added to them, or is it Just the unity by co-operation of these sub-lives? There JA good reason to adopt the second view.
A lune does not consist of notes and a melody. If the notes are played in the proper order, the 'melody is there. It has, noloxis-. tence separable from its parts. Twenty-two players may or may not co-operate play à cricket match. but you certainly cannot have the match without the players. One cannot rencon so directly about a man because a man con
sists of a very large number of cells, about ten thousand million million, and no one of them la as essential to the life of the whole man as the bowler to the cricket
PARIS, May 17 (Router)-News- match.
names, comprising 27 killed, "In-papers report that German warplanes Just ns England could carry on cluding nino previously reported dropped Incendiary bombs on a elvil without any one man, or any thou missing"; one died of wounds or in-jand maternity hospital at Chalons- sand men, 60, could you without juries; eight wounded or Injured; 96 sur-Marne, It is added that part of any particular cell or thousand manag, mms ated, four-VIOUNTY THE TOWMENTY OF VILLY 10 Francois in tone. But kill few miling by reported milssing, are now reported ablaze following the dropping of in- men, sky all qualified locomotive, to be prisoners of war.
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There are many ways of dying. Usually some organ plays ita part so badly that the others are one by one put out of netion.
In pneumonia, the Inflamed lungs let through so litle oxygen that the rest of the body is suffocated. In heart disease the heart may stop suddenly, or pump so inemclently as to suffocate the other organe, In many discuses the part of the brain which sends down nervous Impulses to the breathing muscles is poisoned, and breathing censes.
cases.
But science knows nothing of a definite moment of death in most After the last breath a few more minutes of life could generally be vouchsafed by artificial respira
It is not n haired of life, but a positive desire. And as we grow. older we may do wettto allowit some measure of freedom. For It is the one desire which will quilte certainly be satisfied.
On the other hand, my mind in- cludes certain constituents (this is but we can a clumsy metaphor. only speak of spiritual-things-in metaphors) which will no more perish with the dissolution of my Individuality than will the atoms of which
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compared. To however silght an extent, I have Justice, courage, mathemailes and human kindness, and after my deuth they will still be manifested in others for whom I shall make room. If these others are belter than me I have no cause for com- plaint.
Death, then, as I see, it, is the end of a particular pattern of ma- terial and mental happenings which are bound up with one another.
If the pattern was good and beautiful there is a cause for sor- row, But If, as sometimes happens, the end of the melody of life is its noblest and most beautiful moment, we may feel that "nothing is here for tears."
We need only pity the dying if they are, in Intolerable pain, or it their individualities mean so much to them that the prospect of their own end is an agony.
For death is not the end of life.
It is only the end of my life or your life.
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International situation at a long meeting this afternoon, a high Swiss officer declared: "No further military tion. After the inst heart-beat a surgeon could open the abdominal measures need be taken as the wall, and by putting his hand up army is completely prepared, and Into the chest and rhythmically squeezing the heart, kept the blood at its war stations. Nothing circulating for a short time. Death remains to be done except await is usually a gradual process well events patiently." described by the word "dissolution." After death of the body as a whole many individual cells live on for hours or days; till they die.
And is that ali? For a man or woman whose interests: le la grope and things outside the selves it is very obviously not all. Some religions promise an eternal
hero arc Authoritative circles pleased to note signs of a more pence- ful orientation on the part of Italy. Political observers feel that an in- Lerested Power has recently been try ing to test the Swiss nerves. It is thought that Switzerland might be come endangered if the western front mally become static
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