Science and Human Progress ( Halley Stewart Lectures, 1926 ).
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 188pp. (ii adverts). Navy cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Index. A series of lectures given by Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, (1851 – 1940) the British physicist and psychical researcher, who wrote extensively on parapsychology, science, immortality, and "survival after death." The volume contains the text of five lectures: Knowledge and progress: a general survey of man's position and of his advances in the nineteenth century; Design and purpose: aiming at the development of man; Help and guidance: the indications of our senses and the reality of the unsensed; Faith and the quest for truth: relationship between theology and science; Life and its mysteries: some insoluble problems of existence; Death and hereafter: the problem of survival. Spine & boards a bit darkened and discolored, spine ends bruised, page-edges a little darkened, endpapers unevenly browned, some light scattered foxing and very occasional pencil lines throughout, slight separation between signatures at pages 144-145, still a solid Good copy (no dust jacket). Item #46669
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