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.