OF TO-DAY An Exposition and Critique of New Thought, BY ALFRED W. MARTIN, A.M., S.T.B. AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF JESUS IN THE LIGHT OF THE HIGHER "FAITH IN A FUTURE LIFE," ETC. THE NEW YORK 839757 ASTOR, LENOX AND R 1919 COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Printed in the United States of America FOREWORD THIS book is based upon a series of four addresses recently given in the Hudson Theater, New York, under the auspices of the "League for Political Education." They were delivered without notes and without any thought of their eventual preparation for the press. When, however, it was proposed that they be put into book-form the lectures were revised and enlarged, though the essential argument of each remains unchanged. What is here essayed is a candid examination and critical estimate of (a) the New Thought and kindred cults, (b) the claim of Sir Oliver Lodge and other psychical researchers to have objective evidence for personal immortality and of communication with deceased persons (c) the counter-claim of Modern Materialists (notably Haeckel) to have disproved the legitimacy of every argument in support of faith in human survival of death. Introductory to these three parts of the book |