Death and Its Mystery Before Death. Proofs of the Existence of the Soul.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1922. Second Edition (?). Hardcover. Octavo. (vi) 322pp. Maroon cloth gilt-lettered on spine, lettered in blind on front board. Flammarion was a well-known French author and astronomer, who sought to apply the methodology of the sciences to his studies of Spiritualism. In this volume he explores the possibilities of life after death. Chapter Headings: The Greatest of Problems—Can it Actually be Solved?, Materialism—An Erroneous, Incomplete, and Insufficient Doctrine, What is Man? Does the Soul Exist?, Supra-normal Faculties of the Soul, Unknown or Little Understood, The Will, Acting Without the Spoken Word, Without a Sign, and at a Distance, Telepathy and Psychic Transmissions at a Distance, Vision Without Eyes – The Spirit's Vision, Exclusive Of Telepathic Transmissions; The Sight Of Future Events, The Present Future; The Already Seen; Knowledge Of The Future. Just a hint of shelfwear to cloth, edges dusty, fore-edge flecked, light bump has caused a mild ripple to the top right corner of text-block. Else a solid, clean VG + copy (no dust jacket). Item #69998
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