Man is a Spirit: A Collection of Spontaneous Cases of Dream, Vision and Ecstasy

Verlag: George H. Doran Company, New York, 1918

199 Pages Indexed. Tan cloth with black logo and lettering. Some discoloration along edges of covers. Pages 195 and 196 had three instances of red underlining. A quick thumb thru did not reveal others. Three inked lines of ownership on the front endpaper. Interior text pages are tight, bright, and white. It is a fundamental article of faith of science that all facts are important in some degree. The import of some of them may not be clear at first, but continued collection brings about the possibility of valuable references. An orbit cannot be computed from one or two points given many are necessary. Similarly a number of facts the more the better-may be required before we see their meaning. But there is a meaning, and it is worth our while to amass details patiently. This is the modern spirit-to inquire of Nature instead of building philosophic word structures into the blue. Observation and record are the watchwords. A large acquaintance with particulars often makes us wiser than the possession of abstract formulas, however deep, says William James in the preface to his Varieties of Religious Experience. And particulars may be either subjective or objective. A dream is as much of a fact as a bomb is. It is a psychological fact the other is a physical fact. Collection of psychological facts is a late development (1918) in science, and we have not got far yet, particularly as regards facts of psychical research kind. But they will turn out important, if we study them carefully. The present volume, in the selection of its facts, may seem to start out from an assumption namely, that human personality is more than a collection of material particles, or, crudely and popularly put, that there is a spirit in man. But it is not an assumption. It is an inference, cautiously made after years of observation, from another range of facts, some of which are described in an earlier volume called Psychical Investigations. This present book, therefore, does not stand alone, even as regards its author. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 20393

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Titel: Man is a Spirit: A Collection of Spontaneous...
Verlag: George H. Doran Company, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1918
Einband: Hard Back
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket
Auflage: First Edition