W. Somerset Maugham
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
W. Somerset Maugham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're said to be a race of people somewhere in Africa who
Who believe in the immortality of the body?
but denied the resurrection of the soul.
The dead will rise refreshed after their long sleep.
and in their anxiety to test their rejuvenated powers, will skip bodily away and forget their souls.
Upon returning to look for them, they will find nothing but little blue flames.
Which can never be extinguished, but may be carried about and used for cooking purposes.
This belief probably originates in some dim perception of the love compensation.
In this life the body is the drudge of the spirit.
In the next the situation is reversed.
The heaven of the Muslim is not incompatible with this kind of immortality.
Its delights, being merely carnal ones, could be as well or better enjoyed without a soul.
And the latter might be booked for the Christian heaven.
With only just enough of the body to attach a pair of wings too.
Mr Solomon Muley, Abdul Ben Gazel, could thus enjoy a dual immortality, and secure a double portion of eternal felicity at no expense to anybody.
In fact, there can be no doubt, whatever that this theory of a double heaven is, the true one.
and needs but to be fairly stated to be universally received.
Inasmuch as it supposes the maximum of felicity for terrestrial good behavior.
It is therefore a sensible theory.
Resting upon quite as solid a foundation of fact as any other theory.
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