“Every paper has its own virtues, but there is one which they all share, a rare and delicate charm. These papers bring the touch of romance to philosophy but this must not detract from our realization that the philosophy itself is fine and deep.” S. L. Cook
+ Boston Transcript p4 D 4 ’20 1400w
Reviewed by T: R. Powell
+ Nation 112:237 F 9 ’21 2250w
“The forbiddingly colorless title does grave injustice to an extraordinary book of thoroughly matured human wisdom.” M. R. Cohen
+ New Repub 25:294 F 2 ’21 2450w + Springf’d Republican p8 D 18 ’20 40w
HOLT, HENRY. Cosmic relations and immortality. 2d ed 2v *$10 Houghton 134
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“Mr Holt’s two volumes on ‘The cosmic relations and immortality’ are a new and enlarged edition of the two-volume work he published just before the breaking out of the war under the title ‘On the cosmic relations.’ He has added a new preface and several new chapters and has modified and brought to date the final summary of the subject in his last section. In the new chapters he takes up what he considers the three most important developments during the years since the work first appeared, which, in his opinion, ‘have added force to the spiritistic hypothesis.’ These are, first, the investigations and conclusions of Dr William J. Crawford, the well-known physicist of Queen’s university, Belfast; second, the appearance of many new sensitives, whose manifestations differ much from one another and from their predecessors; third, the agreement of these sensitives in depicting virtually the same future state.”—N Y Times