Entered according to the Act of Congress. in the year 1864, by HIRAM MATTISON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

WESTCOTT & THOMSON, STEREOTYPERS.

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Two-fold Nature of Man-A Spirit in a Body...

CHAPTER IV.

Souls not Pre-existent, nor Supplied by Immediate Creation, but

Propagated............

CHAPTER V.

The Nature of Death..

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22

29

42

CHAPTER VI.

Conscious existence of Souls between Death and the Resurrection. 54

CHAPTER VII.

The alleged Sleep of the Soul between Death and the Resurrection. 73

CHAPTER VIII.

The "Intermediate State," or the Place of Souls between Death

and the Resurrection.....

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CHAPTER IX.

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Immortal Existence not a Result of Faith in Christ...........

121

CHAPTER X.

Supposed Annihilation of the Wicked at the Day of Judgment..... 131

PART SECOND.

RATIONAL EVIDENCES OF A FUTURE LIFE.

CHAPTER I.

Character and Value of the Rational Argument...............

CHAPTER II.

Indications of Another Life in the Structure and Phenomena of

the Natural World..................................

CHAPTER III.

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154

Argument drawn from the General Belief of Mankind................ 163

CHAPTER IV.

་ The Relation of Man to the Lower Animals..........

180

CHAPTER V.

The Immortality of the Soul inferred from the Structure of the

Body in which it dwells.........

CHAPTER VI.

Dominion of the Soul over the Body.........

CHAPTER VII.

Unequal Development of the Mind and Body......

CHAPTER VIII.

Energy of the Soul, in cases where Physical Organs are wanting... 209

CHAPTER IX.

Unimpaired Mental Powers under Bodily Mutilation................... 214

CHAPTER X.

Reverie, Sleep, Dreaming, Catalepsy.........

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CHAPTER XI.

Vigor of the Soul in the Hour of Death...........

CHAPTER XII.

232

The Dissolution of the Body affords no ground for the Presump-

tion that the Mind perishes with it..........

CHAPTER XIII.

238

Powers of the Soul continued-Rapidity of our Mental Processes. 277

CHAPTER XVII.

Powers of the Soul continued-Capabilities of Improvement, and

Vast Achievements........

285

CHAPTER XVIII.

Immortality inferable from the Nature of our desires.................. 294

CHAPTER XIX.

The Moral Nature of Man-Conscience, Remorse, &c.................. 307

CHAPTER XX.

Our continued Love for the Dead a proof of Immortality....................................... 322

CHAPTER XXI.

Natural Emblems of the Soul's Departure at Death..................................................... 330

CHAPTER XXII.

Summary of the Argument, and Practical Conclusions.........

340