SCIENCE OF THE SOUL.. A SCIENTIFIC DEMONSTRATION OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE SOUL OF MAN AS HIS CONSCIOUS. INDIVIDUALITY INDEPENDENTLY OF THE PHYSICAL ORGANISM; OF THE CONTINUITY OF LIFE AND THE ACTUALITY OF SPIRIT RETURN.. BY LOREN ALBERT SHERMAN. THE SHERMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS,, PORT HURON, MICHIGAN. 1895. PREFACE. It is said that catalogues in the great libraries of the world contain the titles of nearly five thousand books on the soul of Man. No apology is offered, however, for this addition to the list, or for the claim made that the hypothesis herein set forth, supported by positive evidence, presents a complete scientific demonstration of the origin, existence, attributes and destiny of the soul. The demonstrations of physical science are no longer questioned or doubted; yet many of them are based upon evidence much less positive and perfect than that demonstrating the truths of psychic science which is within reach of all investigators of psychic and spirit phenomena at the present day. It was necessary, however, for physical science to be first established upon a firm basis, before the foundations of spiritual science could be laid. Normally, Man in the flesh is a physical being, with physical needs, desires and consciousness prevailing; and until scientific investigation and demonstration had dispelled the false notions of physical creation and development which had prevailed during all previous ages, it was quite impossible to induce men to throw off superstition and adopt scientific methods in the study of psychic and spirit manifestations. At long intervals in the dark ages of the past men have been born into the world with spiritual perception so keen that Eternal Truth has impressed itself upon their physical minds, and they have sought to bring such perceptions to the comprehension of their fellow men; but with slight success. The world was not prepared for it. As Jesus Christ declared to his disciples: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but what things soever he shall hear these shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come." But at last the Spirit of Truth has come,-in scientific investigation, which speaks not of itself, but presents the truth as it is |