Science and Personality. By William Brown, M.A., M.D. (Oxon.), D.Sc. (Lond.). Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy in the University of Oxford; Psychotherapist to King's College Hospital, London; Hon. Consulting Psychologist and Lecturer on Medical Psychology, Bethlem Royal Hospital, London. With Foreword by Sir Oliver Lodge, D.Sc., F.R.S. New Haven: Yale University Press. London:  Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. 1929.

This volume is comprised of the substance of a series of three lectures delivered at Yale University in March, 1928, and repeated in the United Congregational Church at Bridgeport, Connecticut, on the Dwight H. Terry Foundation. Its general purpose is the consideration of religion in relation to science and philosophy; and although the main science chosen for discussion has been that of psychology (also in its applied form of psychotherapy) the attempt has been made to preserve a due perspective without omitting a consideration of the physiological and biological sciences in their more general or philosophical aspects.

The book considers a sequence and a completion of the author's previous book, “Mind and Personality.”

Two of the last chapters deal with some of his experiences in psychical research which he hesitatingly includes in the volume, but it is material which he obtained at first hand and illustrates the kind of phenomena upon which inferences as to the possibility of survival of bodily death are based. He feels that these phenomena are apparently of supernormal (or at least unusual) mental power but are worthy of the closest scientific investigation, and have a bearing upon very important questions.

The book consists of seventeen chapters, an appendix and an index. In Chapter II, “The Physical Sciences,” the author discusses the Theary of Relativity and the Quantum Theory.

In Chapter III, “The Biological and Psychological Sciences,” he deals with values, religion and psychotherapy.

Chapter IV, “Mental Unity and Mental Dissociation.” Under the subheading, “Personality and Survival of Bodily Death,” the author says:

“The unitary personality, as an organization of mental activities and mental powers, is not static but dynamic, and is in process of development throughout life. … The question of personal survival of bodily death is one which can be intelligibly and scientifically put, and which is in theory answerable along the lines of scientific observation and inf