THE PHYSIOLOGY OF DEATH. Ero THE EDITOP. OP THE "spaorar0a.1
Sin,—Although I am one of those who " would net owe* spend a night alone in an old char,* or among the graves," I do not fear death because I have once already been through the ordeal of dying, and, when warned that I should soon lose consciousness for ever, felt nothing that could be described as fear, though it seemed " such a pity " to leave my wife and children at thirty-four that I cried silently, just as one might cry on reading something painful in a novel. It never occurred to me to send for a clergyman or to offer up prayers. I wrote two words to be put on my tombstone- Num dimittis—and beyond that troubled for nothing. Bnt for wife and children, I doubt if even I should have sighed when sentence of death was pronounced by my physician. The " sense of impending death," which is a symptom of dyspepsia, is quite another matter, as I know to my cost, having in my twenties actually prayed fervently in an agony of fear, when really there was nothing serious the matter with
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