Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II SCIENCE OF THE SOUL The records of the Society for Psychical Research have actually proved to my mind, first, survival pure and simple, the persistence of the spirit's life, as a structural law of the universe; second, that between the spiritual and the material worlds an avenue of communication does in fact exist; third, that the surviving spirit retains, at least in some measure, the memories and loves of the earth.—F. W. H. Myers, Poet and Essayist. WHILE many theologians and rationalists have been laboriously marking time, psychic scientists have been pressing forward at a daily accelerated speed during the present century, and are now ready to present their carefully verified facts for the consideration of the general public. The great crisis which has come upon the nations compels all, who have any reliable sources of knowledge which can add tothe faith and comfort of the world, to disclose them. Many, both within and without the Church, and in the ranks of free-thought, have from time to time cast inquisitive and uneasy glances at the "Cinderella of the Sciences," and have wondered whether she would really develop into a true princess. Their anxiety may now be set at rest, for she has grown big enough and gracious enough to be presented for their courteous examination. Psychical science has, amongst other things, conclusively proved: 1. That at the death of the body man continues to function as a conscious being. 2. That he functions after death in a refined spirit-body or soul, which has substance and weight, and which can be seen and photographed. 3. That this soul existed within the physical body during life, and is organic, having brain, nerves, blood-vessels, heart, etc. 4. That the soul can communicate in various ways with persons on...