Produced by Larry B. Harrison, Louise Pattison and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net By John Fiske ESSAYS AND PHILOSOPHY A CENTURY OF SCIENCE, and other Essays. MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS: Old Tales and Superstitions interpreted by Comparative Mythology. OUTLINES OF COSMIC PHILOSOPHY. New Edition. With introduction by Josiah Royce, and index. 4 vols. THE UNSEEN WORLD, and other Essays. EXCURSIONS OF AN EVOLUTIONIST. DARWINISM, and other Essays. THE DESTINY OF MAN, viewed in the Light of His Origin. THE IDEA OF GOD, as affected by Modern Knowledge. THROUGH NATURE TO GOD. LIFE EVERLASTING. _For complete list of Mr. Fiske's Historical and Philosophical Works, and Essays, see pages at the back of this work._ HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK LIFE EVERLASTING [Illustration] LIFE EVERLASTING BY JOHN FISKE [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY ABBY M. FISKE, EXECUTRIX ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published September, 1901_ [Illustration] NOTE On the evening of December 19, 1900, Mr. Fiske delivered in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, the address here printed. It was given at the request of Harvard University, in accordance with the terms of the Ingersoll lectureship, but it stood clearly in Mr. Fiske's mind as a continuation, and in a sense the completion, of that series of philosophic studies successively issued under the titles, "The Destiny of Man viewed in the Light of his Origin," "The Idea of God as affected by Modern Knowledge," and "Through Nature to God." Mr. Fiske delayed the publication of "Life Everlasting," and it is possible that he designed amplifying it. Yet, as he stated in his Preface to "The Idea of God," that both that book and "The Destiny of Man" were printed exactly as delivered, "without the addition, or subtraction, or alteration of a single word," so he may have intended to print this study in the same way. At any rate it is now printed exactly as it was delivered, his perfectly clear manuscript being carefully followed. 4 PARK STREET, BOSTON _Autumn, 1901_ [Illustration] THE INGERSOLL LECTURESHIP _Extract from the will of Miss Caroline Haskell Ingersoll, who died in Keene, County of Cheshire, New Hampshire, Jan. 26, 1893._