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(I) Some Cases of Prediction: (2) Personality Survives Death (3) The Superphysical

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WITHIN recent years, a distinct change in the character of spiritualistic propaganda has become discernible. A division is becoming apparent and, if we may be pardoned for using a current political expression, its exponents are becoming somewhat”class-conscious'. The extent and crudity of the fraud now being practised both in Great Britain, and in the United States have almost forced the more educated classes to eschew what is presented for the edification of their weaker brethren, and to build up something more in accordance with their own intellectual standards. Propaganda is to-day of a much more sophisticated type ; and the language of modern psychology and statistical method is supplanting the naive descriptions of earlier years.

(I) Some Cases of Prediction:

a Study. By Dame Edith Lyttelton. . Pp. 160. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1937.) 2s. 6d. net.

(2) Personality Survives Death

Messages from Sir William Barrett. . Edited by his Wife. Pp. xlvi + 204. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1937.) 7s. 6d. net.

(3) The Superphysical:

a Review of the Evidence for Continued Existence, Reincarnation, and Mystical States of Consciousness. By Arthur W. Osborn. . Pp. xvi + 350. (London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, Ltd., 1937.) 12s. 6d. net.

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(I) Some Cases of Prediction: (2) Personality Survives Death (3) The Superphysical. Nature 140, 1078–1079 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401078a0

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