HUMAN PERSONALITY
AND ITS SURVIVAL OF
BODILY DEATH
BY
FREDERIC W. H. MYERS
EDITED AND ABRIDGED
BY HIS SON
LEOPOLD HAMILTON MYERS
| Cessas in vota procesque, |
| Tros, ait, Aenea, cessas? Neque enim ante dehiscent |
| Adtonitœ magna ora domus.—VIRGIL. |
| "Nay!" quoth the Sybil, "Trojan! wilt thou spare |
| The impassioned effort and the conquering prayer? |
| Nay! not save thus those doors shall open roll,— |
| That Power within them burst upon the soul." |
NEW IMPRESSION
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1918
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First Edition, December, 1906
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October, 1909; April, 1913
August, 1917; April, 1918
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TO
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AND
EDMUND GURNEY