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lapsed amid the shrieks of all; there was a loud
Crack!
And there,
roundabout, were the broad fields and the orchard trees, the village,
the clouds, and the sun. . . ."
"Very pretty," said Henry's friend. "You remind me of a
celebrated argument of the philosopher MacTaggart on survival
after death. The fact that all experience is sensory and that the
sense-organs decay, says he, is no proof that there could not be
experience after death; for this is like saying that we cannot see
without windows just because a person inside a house cannot see
except thru windows. Rather, MacTaggart asks, who knows what
our experience will be like when once we have got rid of these
sense-organs!"
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"Do you think that is such a stupid argument?" said Henry,
laughing up his sleeve.
