Yet the mind can only assume therefore that that which is utterly beyond it's conception does face death with certain apprehensions, not certain as to its nature. But by wisdom we gain a strange confidence over death.

That is expressed by Jesus and Socrates, and expressed perhaps by little people, more than we know, the individual who labors quietly, giving his life, spending it, in the service of others, who perhaps by deed or emergency, to a gentle kind of martyrdom that we will never really appreciate.

The majority of human beings, though they do not understand death, are not afraid to die.