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_005198024	O'Brien, John A. (John Anthony), 1893-1980.	Shall we live again? : Light from modern science and philosophy.	1946		.txt	text/plain	11381	576	70	An After Life In those simple words she summed up the case for an after life with a directness and pregnancy greater than that found in the treatises of all the philosophers. “On the supposition of universal mortality,” observes Prof. Hastings Rashdall, “the contrast between the capacities of human nature and its actual destiny, between the immensity of man’s outlook and the limitations of his actual horizon, between the splendor of his ideals and the insignificance of his attain- ment, becomes such as to constitute, in a mind which fairly faces it, a shock to our rational nature sufficient to destroy belief in the rationality of things, and to imperil confidence in the author- ity of Moral Reason as a guide to human life.	cache/_005198024.txt	txt/_005198024.txt