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“The style of Dr. Osler is most felicitous; and those who think they care but little for the professional aspect of this volume, will be charmed by its graceful expressions, its acute suggestions, its thorough good sense.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 193. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1600w. |
Osler, William. Science and immortality. [**]85c. Houghton.
The frankly agnostic spirit of modern “intellectuals” dealt with in this volume is best summed up by quotations from the text itself: “Though his philosophy find nothing to support it, ... the scientific student should be ready to acknowledge the value of a belief in the hereafter as an asset in human life.... He cannot be dogmatic and deny the possibility of a future state, ... he will ask to be left, reserving his judgment, but still inquiring.... Science is organized knowledge, and knowledge is of things we see. Now the things that are seen are temporal: of the things that are unseen science knows nothing, and has at present no means of knowing anything.”
“The simple and charming style of the writer, as well as his apt quotations from the masters, makes this book a delight to read.”
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Reviewed by E. T. B.
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Reviewed by H. B. Alexander.