Birth and Death, as a Change of Form of Perception

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Excerpt from Birth and Death, as a Change of Form of Perception: Or the Dual Nature of ManIn offering to the English public a translation of Baron fleilenbach's "Geburt und Tod als Wechsel der Anschauungsform, " - a work which has met with great success in Austria and Germany, - I wish to say a few words as to the views held by the author, from the spiritualist's standpoint. While admiring greatly the logic, research, and reasoning powers of the writer, I cannot altogether agree with him in some of the conclusions he has arrived at, and I think perhaps if he had studied more of the best literature in English on the subject, as, for instance, the works of Epes Sargent, Mrs. De Morgan, M.A. (Oxon.), and others, besides carrying on his untiring investigation of the phenomena themselves, his opinions on spiritualism would be more decided than they at present are. I have endeavoured to make the translation as literal as possible, consistently with rendering it into readable English, beyond which it has no pretensions, and I only wish to say further that I have found some difficulty in giving a good equivalent for several of the words used, two especially, which frequently occur, "phänomenale" and "intelligibel." The former, the author makes use of to express natural or every-day occurrences, while the English word "phenomenal, " as generally understood and employed, means uncommon, or out of the ordinary course.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.