Book Description
Excerpt from The Supreme Adventure This metrical story of the future life, which voices the persistent aspiration and unquenchable faith of all the ages, also looks beyond the incident of death with the bold eye of a soldier of the great war, a member of the Foreign Legion and winner of the War Cross who, before he was killed in action, wrote thus to a friend in his native America: "Living as we do with death as a constant companion has but deepened my conviction of something after this life. A man's soul must include his capacity for action, work, his creative faculties. The numbers of young men just on the threshold of their creative life - these men, killed, utterly destroyed in a second by a few ounces of explosive, have made impossible the belief that all their minds held is definitely lost to humanity. I believe that death is followed by life as surely as sunset is followed by sunrise, but by a life much more closely related to this one than theological dogma would have us believe. All this has taught me to regard death as an episode. It has lost much of its mystery and all of its terror. I have a curiosity, an eagerness, to see and begin the new life, tempered by a wish to know this one a little more fully." It is inconceivable that the mind of this young soldier, facing death at the cannon's mouth with a serene philosophy and even an adventurous curiosity, will not continue to function as of old and more perfectly beyond his battle-grave. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
