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 Flammarion's “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.