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THIS is a book that will attract great attention, and deservedly so. There is a well-known saying recommending men, especially judges, to give their conclusions, but never their reasons. Possibly this is wise advice in the realm of law, but it is a hopeless attitude of mind in the regions of philosophy, where the reasons are of the essence of the transaction, and the conclusions may be merely the incorrect deduction of a mind as imperfect as our own. When, therefore, a man of the standing of Sir Oliver Lodge consents, if we may use the expression, to do his thinking aloud, to lay himself open indifferently to the scoffs of the convinced unbeliever and the wistful commiseration of the unconvinced would-be believer; when he allows us to see the process by which he himself has become persuaded of the most fundamental doctrine of life, the whole community owes him a very great debt of gratitude.
Survival of Man. A Study in Unrecognised Human Faculty.
By Sir Oliver Lodge Pp. xi + 357. (London: Methuen and Co., 1909.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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Survival of Man A Study in Unrecognised Human Faculty . Nature 83, 31 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083031a0
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