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Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait attempt to connect nineteenth-century physical science with belief in a life beyond death. Their argument turns on the conservation of energy, the continuity of natural processes and the possibility that the visible world forms part of a wider, unseen order. The book brings discussions of matter, ether and the development of the universe into contact with questions of memory, personality and immortality.
An introductory historical survey leads into the authors’ physical assumptions and their proposed relationship between the seen and unseen worlds. Biblical interpretation and Christian theology form part of the concluding discussion. This expanded 1878 edition retains the original prefaces, introduction and complete seven-chapter argument.