ion in our death,
And life the incident of fleeting breath.
We travel round the ologies to see
Naught but a grand revolving mystery;
But then if we have a controlling mind,
Why should not God have the same kind?
"Kinetogenesis" was ruled by will,
The conscious thought goes with it still,
And as conscious thought erst "ruled the roast,"
Why may it not become a ghost?
But as ghosts are like a vapor mixed,
All speculation is lost betwixt
The possible this, and the possible that,
And so philosophy falls flat.

11. SIR JOHN WILLIAM DAWSON, LL.D., F.R.S., Principal of McGill
University, Montreal.

We are bound to believe in eternal life,
'Tis an instinct which in humanity's rife,
Of savages, some have been found so low,
As neither a God or a heaven to know;
If civilized men sink down to their level,
They are on the highway to the realms of the Devil.

12. J. STERRY HUNT, LL.D., F.R.S.

In a terrible hurry, I cannot say much,
But Science, I think, opposes all such
Belief in the future. But God is so great,
I accept what he gives as my future state.

13. WILLIAM JAMES, M.D., Prof. Philosophy, Harvard University.

I can only say my philosophy floats
In the German life-boat of Prof. Lotze,
At one opinion we both arrive,
That all who ought to will survive.

14. BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD, LL.D., Astronomer, Cambridge.

My faith is firm, but I have no time
To explain it all in this tuneful rhyme.
Science cannot say much, I fear,
But must admit that God is here,
And if the priests would let us alone,
Perhaps a little more might be known.
Spirit is fact, and this I assume,
For Matter is nothing but solid Gloom.

15. ALFRED R. WALLACE, the compeer of Darwin.

Spiritual science has told the whole story
Of the claims of mankind to realms of glory.
Our facts are abundant, harmonious and true,
They satisfy me and should satisfy you.
No baseless hypothesis shapes our knowledge,
No dogmatic rule derived from a college,
As we fearless explore the worlds unseen,
And learn what all their mysteries mean.
The science we study is truly Divine,
They only reject it who are mentally blind.

16. THOMAS HILL, D.D., LL.D., Ex-President of Harvard.

As for life after death, a life without breath,
Though science says no, I don't think it's so,
For 'tis well understood our God is too good
To create us and cherish, and th