Readers wishing to study the complete series of essays from which the sixteen in this volume are taken will find them in the three books entitled, Our Eternity, The Unknown Guest and The Wrack of the Storm, all of which are issued by the present publishers.

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Chelsea, 9 April 1917

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION[vii]
I.OUR INJUSTICE TO DEATH[13]
II.ANNIHILATION[31]
III.COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE DEAD[37]
IV.OUR ULTIMATE CONSCIOUSNESS[63]
V.THE TWO ASPECTS OF INFINITY[75]
VI.OUR FATE IN THOSE INFINITIES[89]
VII.CONCLUSIONS[105]
VIII.THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FUTURE[115]
IX.HEROISM[181]
X.ON RE-READING THUCYDIDES[193]
XI.THE DEAD DO NOT DIE[205]
XII.IN MEMORIAM[213]
XIII.THE LIFE OF THE DEAD[217]
XIV.THE WAR AND THE PROPHETS[225]
XV.THE WILL OF EARTH[237]
XVI.WHEN THE WAR IS OVER[247]

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OUR INJUSTICE TO DEATH