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Personal Port Washington, Ohio June 18, 1906 My dear Mr. Muir:- I expected to attend the N.E.A. meeting at San Francisco
this summer, and hence, have the great pleasure of paying you a visit before leaving California. But the sad misfortune which
befell your city has also caused us to postpone our meeting. I have not seen you for a long time, and I am also very anxious
to talk over with you a matter concerning my present welfare. Under the circumstances may I present the matter by letter?
- The present wide-spread disbelief in individual immortality has disturbed me very much. I cannot understand why so many
great minds have come to the same conclusion as was reached by Prof. Dr. Os illegible wald in his recent Harvard lecture on
Individuality and Immortality that there is no personal immortality after death. How can the human soul abandon all aspiration
for persistence of personal identity after death? How can reason feel satisfied with the belief that immortality consists
in the effect each individual has on the advancement of the race? (over) 03743