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PROF. RYLE's book has, he tells us, been written both for believers and unbelievers to hearten and console men and women in times of trial and trouble. He assures them that pain and fear are natural phenomena; that there is no evidence that they are punishments for our misdeeds; that on the contrary they are conditions not only of the survival but also of the advance of life—without them, it seems, the higher species could not have evolved—and that, so far from being shelved and shunned and enveloped in an atmosphere of mystery, they should be subjected to study and research which show them to be not so very dreadful after all.
Fears may be Liars
By Prof. John A. Ryle. Pp. 96. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1941.) 3s. 6d. net.
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JOAD, C. A PHILOSOPHY OF PAIN AND FEAR. Nature 148, 64–65 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148064a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148064a0
