"It is impossible for us to calculate the vast amount of utterly unnecessary sorrow and terror and misery which mankin…"

"Let us take the most prominent... misconceptions one by one, and endeavour to expose their fallacies. Some of them ma…"

"People are sometimes inclined to think that after all it does not so very much matter if a man’s ideas about death ar…"

"The first and most fatal of all misconceptions about death is the idea that it is the end of all things; that there i…"

"There is still an immense mass of blank ignorance in the world, and, worse still, there is much of that most objectio…"

"Another and perhaps even more widely spread misconception is, that death is a plunge into the great unknown—that noth…"

"The Catholic Teaching. Among the forms of faith of our Western world the great Catholic Church stands alone in giving…"

"I presume that we may take the Catholic doctrine on the subject, stated very roughly, to be this—that while the hopel…"

"Things of real worth, such as the mental life of the ant or the crab, fill psychological and scientific literature; b…"

"Death is a subject which cannot but be of the deepest interest to every one, since the one thing which is absolutely …"