And the Will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who know eth the mysteries of the Will, with its vigour? For God is a great Will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble Will. -Glanville. IMMORTALITY FROM NEW STANDPOINTS By ELMER GATES Professor of Psychology and Psychurgy, Washington, D. C. EDITOR'S PREFACE. In segregating Prof. Gates' contribution from the main body of this work I have been governed by its highly scientific character, the originality and profundity of the thought expressed, and the startling, luminous prospects of man's coming knowledge opened up by it to the mind of the student. It is a fitting climax to this Symposium-I was about to say, the voice of Plato at the banquet. It has been my endeavor, throughout, to keep the matter comprising these pages within the easy comprehension of the general reader. In this chapter, however, there is room and need for the closest study. I have placed it apart, therefore, from the rest of the book and in the form of a special scientific supplement. It will be found a deep and lucid essay on this supreme question of life, an essay by one whom, in the judgment of the Editor, future history is likely to pronounce the greatest thinker of his day. Prof. Gates is but little past forty years of age, yet Prof. McGee of the Smithsonian Institution writes of him: "His work will revolutionize education and lead to greater intellectual progress in the next quarter of a century than has been achieved in all the centuries before." "His work covers the whole range of the sciences," says Prof. Herman T. Lukens, Ph. D. “I am profoundly impressed by his educational ideas and his |