University of Virginia Library

XXXV

Nearly our whole lives are employed in foolish
inquiries. Nevertheless, there are questions which
should excite man's curiosity in the highest degree,

and which, to judge from his customary mode of life,
do not inspire him with any.

Where are our dead friends?

Why are we here?

Do we come from some other place?

What is free will?

Can it be reconciled with the laws of Providence?

Is there a finite or an infinite number of souls?

What of the number of habitable lands? Etc.,
etc. . . .