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Excerpt from The Peak in Darien: With Some Other Inquiries Touching Concerns of the Soul and the Body, an Octave of Essays
To these discussions, I have added one on the Fitness of Women for the Ministry of Religion, a subject, I believe, destined soon to acquire impor tance, with two or three less serious papers on other matters touching moral questions; and, in conclusion, I have returned to a speculation con cerning the immediate entry into the life after death which I find has possessed interest for many readers. That Peak in Darien, which we must all ascend in our turn, - the apex of two worlds, whence the soul may possibly descry the horizonless Pacific of eternity, is the turning-point of human hope. And it appears to me infinitely strange that so little attention has been paid to the cases wherein indica tions seem to have been given of the perception by the dying of blessed presences revealed to them even as the veil of ¿esh has dropped away. Were I per mitted to record with names and references half the instances of this occurrence which have been nar rated to me, this short essay might have been swelled to a volume. It is my wish, however, that it should serve to suggest observation and provoke the inter change of experiences, rather than be considered as pretending to decide affirmatively the question wherewith it deals.
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