What Shall We Become After Death ? By Abbe Moreux.
(Sands and Co. 58.) The title and binding of this book immediately suggest one of the sensational little manuals on Spiritualism or Occultism which arc so frequently met with nowadays. The ecclesiastical " Nihil Obstat" and " Imprimatur " on the fly-leaf, and the author's name, would lead one to expect a work on Catholic Theology. But the book is neither of these things. It is true that the answer given to the mighty riddle is the one furnished by the Christian Church, namely, the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body, but the author's method of approach is far from being theo- logical. He deals with recent scientific developments most ingeniously and demonstrates how incapable are the physical sciences per se of interpreting the Universe. We are then led in natural sequence through Metaphysics to Philosophy. The author contends that the modern advancements in physics and chemistry supply ample confirmation of the tenets of scholastic philosophy ; and he supports his thesis very convincingly. The book is excellently written through- out.
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