Written for readers facing the darker problems of the age and the approach of death, these eight essays challenge the claim that atheism is a magnanimous creed and Leopardi’s verdict that life is not worth living. Cobbe attacks the worship of health and the vivisectors, argues for women as ministers of religion, and in the title essay considers what the dying seem to see.
A forceful collection from the Irish writer who founded Britain’s first anti-vivisection society. Download the free EPUB.