I am particularly good at explanations--and, generally, at all _post facto_ wisdom." "Keyork, do you believe that the souls of the dead can come back and be visible to us ?" Keyork Arabian was silent for a few seconds.
"I know nothing about it," he answered.
"But what do you think ?" "Nothing.

Either it is possible, or it is not, and until the one proposition or the other is proved I suspend my judgment.

Have you seen a ghost ?" "I do not know.

I have seen something----" She stopped, as though the recollections were unpleasant.
"Then" said Keyork, "the probability is that you saw a living person.
Shall I sum up the question of ghosts for you ?" "I wish you would, in some way that I can understand." "We are, then, in precisely the same position with regard to the belief in ghosts which we occupy towards such questions as the abolition of death.

The argument in both cases is inductive and all but conclusive.
We do not know of any case, in the two hundred generations of men, more or less, with whose history we are in some degree acquainted, of any individual who has escaped death.