Excerpt from Science and a Future LifeThe elaborate Reports of the Society for Psychical Research seldom get beyond the shelves of its mem bers, and it is possible that few of this class read them with any such care and patience as students are made to bestow upon Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel. I know one prominent member who had my own lengthy report on his table for six months without knowing what it was about. If those who profess allegiance to the work do no better than this what can we expect of the Philistines? Of course it is hard to blame any one for this, because this is a busy world and there is too much to read. But I remark the fact to indi cate the difficulties in the way of interesting even the best minds on so intricate a subject as this.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.