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A ijnenuAL broadening out of the basis on which modern; psychology rests, and a rediscovery of the once notorious. fact that the ape and tiger do not tell all the truth about the soul, is characteristic of the best work now being done in thii field : and Dr. William Brown is one of the most eminent: among those psychologists and philosophers who are striving for a view of human personality which shall be at once spiritual' and scientific. His recently delivered Terry Lectures, now republished with additions as Science and Personality (Oxford • University Press, 12s. (3d.), continue the exposition of a doctrine with which he has already made us familiar in his' previous book. The rather discursive style, more appropriate, to the lecture-room than to private reading, detracts con- siderably from this work ; which ranges over such diverse. subjects as " Spiritual Healing," suggestion, psycho-analysis, religion and art, and gives considerable attention to psychical research and the problem of survival. Many who fail to be attracted by technical accounts of psychotherapy will read these chapters for their human interest. In a final section' called " Faith, Love and Personality " Dr. Brown gathers up 'these varied threads ; and tries to construct a theory of religion which shall meet both the spiritual and psychological requirements of man.
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