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World Pub. Co.
Language
English
Pages
253

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Table of Contents

Genius, fear, and courage
1. The searching philosophers: Socrates, Swedenborg, Kant, and Schopenhauer
2. From Shakespeare to Shelley
3. Lincoln: mediums and forebodings
4. Victor Hugo: a two-year dialogue with ghosts
5. From the Brownings to Dickens: a love-hate of spirits
6. Mark Twain's "mental telegraphy"
7. William James: varieties of psychic experiences
8. Strindberg: telepathic delusions?
9. A. R. Wallace: dimensions beyond Darwin
10. Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes's alter ego
11. Thomas Edison: a machine to contact the dead
12. McDougall: ESP at universities
13. Freud: psychoanalysis and telepathy
14. Jung: toward a fourth dimension
15. Yeats: a poet's lifetime vision
16. Alexis Carrel: the unknown in man
17. Maeterlinck: before the great silence
18. W. L. Mackenzie King: the prime minister was discreet
19. Thomas Mann: séance on The Magic Mountain
20. Gilbert Murray: parlor games of a classicist
21. Aldous Huxley: Odyssey to LSD
22. Upton Sinclair's "mental radio"
23. C. J. Ducasse: philosopher of the ultimate
24. The right to believe, and the right to doubt.

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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [243]-247.

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Genre
Case studies.

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253 p. ;
Number of pages
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OL22859089M

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