"The scientific denial of immortality is based upon the admitted fact of the connection between mind and brain; whence it is assumed that the death of the brain must involve the death of that, whatever it be, which has been called the soul. This may indeed be true; but it is not necessarily or obviously true; it does not follow logically from the fact of the connection."
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Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
(6 August 1862 – 3 August 1932) was a British political scientist and philosopher. He was a fellow at Cambridge from 1887 to 1932 and a lecturer at the from 1911 to 1920.
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