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Ostwald, Wilhelm. Individuality and immortality: the Ingersoll lectures, 1906. **75c. Houghton.
Professor Ostwald, professor of chemistry at the university of Leipzig, treats the question scientifically. “At the very outset, the lecturer calls attention to the fact that our knowledge ‘is an incomplete piece of patchwork;’” but, he adds, “each one is bound to make the best possible use of it, such as it is, never forgetting that it may at any time be superseded by new discoveries or ideas. In this truly scientific spirit, very remote from the dogmatism of the churches, Professor Ostwald proceeds to consider what immortality may be supposed to be, and what reasons we have for believing it.” (Dial.)
“The chief value of this work is in showing the attitude which the scientifically trained mind tends to take to those problems where the clear principles and positive methods of the physical sciences do not obtain.” W. C. Keirstead.