The Proofs of Life After Death

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1902. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... The Psychical Researchers. frederic W. H. myers t. t t "Seeker after truth and helper of his comrades." The death of Frederic W. H. Myers, one of the most eminent and serious students of the present time, a monumental figure and pioneer in "the most important work of the world"--that of Psychical Research--is described by the eminent Italian physician who attended him at the time as "a spectacle for the gods; it was most edifying to see how a genuine conviction of immortality can make a man indifferent to what to ordinary people is so horrible." In his last hours, in the intervals of painfully difficult breathing, he quoted from one of his own poems: --Ah, welcome then that hour which bids thee lie In anguish of thy last infirmity! Welcome the toss for ease, the gasp for air, The visage drawn, the hippocratic stare; Welcome the darkening dream, the lost control, The sleep, the swoon, the arousal of the soul. "Frederic Myers' faith was the outcome entirely of his scientific researches. The years of struggle and effort and systematic thought had begotten in (us) him a confidence, absolute and supreme," writes Dr. Oliver Lodge, the President of the society to which Frederic Myers so faithfully devoted his splendid abilities. "To Myers this faith did not come by religion. He would have described himself as one who walked by sight and knowledge rather than by faith, and his eager, life-long struggle for knowledge was in order that he might by no chance be mistaken. I never knew a man so hopeful concerning his ultimate destiny. He once asked me whether I would barter, if it were possible, my unknown destiny, whatever it might be, for as many aeons of unmitigated and wise terrestrial happiness as might last till the fading of the sun, and then an end. "He would not! For...