Death and its Mystery - Before Death - Proofs of the Existence of the Soul - Volume I;With Introductory Poems by Emily Dickinson & Percy Bysshe Shelley

First published in 1920 this book contains the first volume of Nicolas Camille Flammarions Death and its Mystery which deals with the age-old question of what happens when you die. In this volume Flammarion concentrates on the soul and explores a variety of historical cases and investigations that purport to prove the existence thereof examining their validity in light of scientific facts. Contents include: 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 etc. Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (1842-1925) was a French author and astronomer. A prolific writer he produced over fifty books including science fiction novels works on astronomy and works on physical research. Other titles by this author include: The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds (1862) Real and Imaginary Worlds (1865) and God in Nature (1866). Read & Co. Science is proudly republishing this classic work now in a new edition complete with introductory poems by Emily Dickinson and Percy Bysshe Shelley.