Science has never, never answered “yes.”

Indeed all psycho-physiological sciences show,

If we’d be loyal, we must answer “no!”

Man cannot recollect before being born,

And hence his future life must be “in a horn.”

There must be a parte ante if there’s a parte post,

And logic thus demolishes every future ghost.

Upon this subject the voice of science

Has ne’er been aught but stern defiance.

Mythology and magic belong to “limbus fatuorum;”