The historic ascent of humanity taken as a whole may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature in society in man himself.
Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature a soul why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
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Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.