“The novel terminology once mastered, the new method becomes interesting.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 390w. |
“They are erudite and earnest, but dogmatic and ineffective. We do not question the earnestness and sincerity which have produced these two volumes, but we do question whether the absolute unit-universal will save his philosophical children from their sins through the message of the syllogistic philosophy.” R. B. C. Johnson.
| − + | Philos. R. 16: 447. Jl. ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Well equipped with wide and careful reading as Dr. Abbot evidently was, he seems to have fallen upon an arid formalism which forces him to serve up afresh, and with reiterated emphasis, many of the contingent features peculiar to idealistic absolutism in the nineteenth century.”
| + − | Science, n.s. 25: 854. My. 31, ’07 1550w. |
Abbott, David Phelps. Behind the scenes with the mediums. *$1.50. Open ct.
7–27622.
From the point of view of the worker of magic, Mr. Abbott, who is not a medium, reveals all the tricks of the séance. “The ardent believers whose faith no number of exposures can disturb, the skeptics whom no sort of séance has been able to convince, and the scientific investigators toward whom the author is a bit contemptuous, will all find in its pages matter in plenty either interesting or irritating.” (N. Y. Times.)