J. Ellis McTaggart Some considerations relating to human immortality articleSome considerations relating to human immortalityJ. Ellis McTaggartThe international journal of ethics, vol. 13, no. 2, 1903, pp. 152–171PDFNotes citing this workJohn McTaggart Ellis McTaggart: a bibliographyQuotes from this workThe opinion that a belief in immortality is logically indefensible gains strength, paradoxical as it may seem, from the very fact that most of the western world desire that the belief may be true.Immortality · Wishful Thinkingp. 170