Cosmic Consciousness, by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], at Sacred-Texts.Com
Cosmic Consciousness, by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], at sacred-texts.com Cosmic Consciousness A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind By RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE, M.D. FORMERLY MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, LONDON, CANADA E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc [1901] Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, June 2009, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923. Cosmic Consciousness, by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], at sacred-texts.com [p. i] Dedication from the first edition MAURICE ANDREWS BUCKE 22 November, 1868--8 December, 1899 8 December, 1900 DEAR MAURICE:-- A year ago to-day, in the prime of youth, of health and of strength, in an instant, by a terrible and fatal accident, you were removed forever from this world in which your mother and I still live. Of all young men I have known you were the most pure, the most noble, the most honourable, the most tender-hearted. In the business of life you were industrious, honest, faithful, intelligent and entirely trustworthy. How at the time we felt your loss--how we still feel it--I would not set down even if I could. I desire to speak here of my confident hope, not of my pain. I will say that through the experiences which underlie this volume I have been taught, that in spite of death and the grave, although you are beyond the range of our sight and hearing, notwithstanding that the universe of sense testifies to your absence, you are not dead and not really absent, but alive and well and not far from me this moment.
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