Excerpt from The Attitude Toward Death and the Types of Belief in Immortality: A Study in the Psychology of ReligionUnquestionably the belief in a future life needs to be sub mitted to a psychological analysis in order that its motive force may be more intelligently and effectively utilized. Psychology cannot, it is true, determine the ontological validity of the belief in immortality and in this paper we shall not attempt to discuss that phase of the problem. We shall not raise the question as to whether man is or is not immortal, - that may well be left for the philosophers and theologians. Our problem is to determine the sources Of the belief 111 Immortality, to find the value of these as controls of conduct, and finally to indicate the pragmatic or pedagogical application of the results to moral and religious education.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.