Human Immortality; Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [6], 2-70, [4] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. McDermott 837; 5. The Ingersoll Lecture delivered at Harvard University. With explanatory notes by James. James here gives his replies to the objections that thought is a function of the brain, and that universal human immortality would be unlikely. These of course are objections to the Doctrine of Human Immortality, the idea that human beings are unique because of our cognitive abilities (these abilities often taken as evidence that humans have souls) and that because of these abilites we alone ascend to an afterlife after death. James' lecture responds to the two objections above, in support of a theological view of human existence. Near Fine. Item #000010327
A contemporary bookplate and name in pencil on the front preliminaries, William M. Lawrence.
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