me that he never said this. Returning to Dr.
Gurgoyle, he continued:--"It may be urged that on a man's death one of
the great factors of his life is so annihilated that no kind of true life
can be any further conceded to him. For to live is to be influenced, as
well as to influence; and when a man is dead how can he be influenced? He
can haunt, but he cannot any more be haunted. He can come to us, but we
cannot go to him. On ceasing, therefore, to be impressionable, so great
a part of that wherein his life consisted is removed, that no true life
can be conceded to him.

"I do not pretend that a man is as fully alive after his so-called death
as before it. He is not. All I contend for is, that a considerable
amount of efficient life still remains to some of us, and that a little
life remains to all of us, after what we commonly regard as the complete
cessation of life. In answer, then, to those who have just urged that
the destruction of one of the two great factors of life destroys life
altogether, I reply that the same must hold good as regards death.

"If to live is to be influenced and to influence, and if a man cannot be
held as living when he can no longer be influenced, surely to die is to
be no longer able either to influence or be influenced, and a man cannot
be held dead until both these two factors of death are present. If
failure of the power to be influenced vitiates life, presence of the
power to influence vitiates death. And no one will deny that a man can
influence for many a long year after he is vulgarly reputed as dead.

"It seems, then, that there is no such thing as either absolute life
without any alloy of death, nor absolute death without any alloy of life,
until, that is to say, all posthumous power to influence has faded away.
And this, perhaps, is what the Sunchild meant by saying that in the midst
of life we are in death, and so also that in the midst of death we are in
life.

"And there is this, too. No man can influence fully until he can no more
be influenced--that is to say, till after his so-called death. Till
then, his 'he' is still unsettled. We know not what other influences may
not be brought to bear upon him that may change the character of the
influence he will exert on ourselves. Therefore, he is not fully living
till he is no longer living. He is an incomplete work, which cannot have
full effect till finished. And as for his vicarious life--which we have
seen to