“Why should we consider the soul mortal?”

From Diaries of Note, an interesting entry by Wanda Gág, an author and artist who, in 1928, published Millions of Cats, a bestselling children’s book. Twenty years earlier, when she was 22, she wrote this entry about an ongoing discussion she was having with Adolph Dehn, a fellow art student at the Minneapolis School of Art, on the intersection of science and religion in trying to understand the mortality or immortality of the human soul. What I found enjoyable about it was not so much the reasoning (which seemed appropriate for a serious 22-year-old thinker) but the gentleness of her feelings towards both the argument and Mr. Dehn.

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