What are we? Whence do we come? and whither do we go? Is birth the commencement, and is death the conclusion of our being? What is birth and death? These are some of the questions, PB Shelley examines in this book. Though most often, the answer to all the above questions veers around God, the author disagrees, saying, 'God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof'. The book then goes on to revisit the popular arguments in support of intelligent creation, control and other managerial responsibilities of the universe.
The book ends with a unique assertion.
'This desire to be forever as we are; the reluctance to a violent and unexperienced change, which is common to all the animated and inanimate combinations of the universe' is, indeed, 'the secret persuasion which has given birth to the opinions of a future state', and of God, who can make it happen. Or, Newton's first law of motion explains why there is theism.
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