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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1893 Excerpt: ... VIII. HOW FAMOUS MEN DIED. The new school of Christian Science, as its votaries have baptized it, professes to have discovered, if not a remedy against death, at least a method for the removal of the dread which has always accompanied the destroyer's advent. If, as they allege, they are competent to mend a broken leg without the intervention of a surgeon, it would seem not much more hazardous for them not only to annihilate the fear of death, but to destroy all possibility of the dissolution of this "frail and fickle frame" of ours, and even indefinitely to prolong the term of human existence. Ponce de Leon's fountain of perpetual youth has at last been discovered in the metaphysical mazes of New England philosophy! But, "as for our single selves we had as lief" credit them with the capacity to accomplish the one as to do the other. "We fear that death must always continue to be, as it has been, the dread and awful archer and the king of terrors to the majority of men, and that nothing.can temper the rigor of his wrath, but the protecting aegis of a life of virtue and sinlessness. In view, however, of the frequent reflections that must occur to every man as to the precise nature of what his feelings shall be in that supremity of danger, it may be interesting and instructive to observe what has been the conduct of great minds, in the world's history, when brought into contact with what shall be the inevitable doom of all. I shall devote some labor and research to the ascertainment of the facts, which, as they appear to my mind, are of the most obvious interest. Having inspected the death-beds of these celebrities, and seen the manner of their death, we can then examine, if we choose, the tenor and common conduct of their lives, and thence we shall be able to...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150825408
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150825405
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 449 gr


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