MR. Lamont's book is brief, 180 pages, and pretends to be no more than an introductory study. He does not bring to the subject the intensity of conviction with which he advocated back-pay for the scrubwomen, and does not seek "to prove or disprove any idea of immortality," but to analyze certain definitions and descriptions together with the supporting arguments.
To prevent his own bias influencing the treatment, he has quoted "directly wherever possible." The book, is, in fact, largely a culling of brief quotations from numerous modern elergymen and other writers, such as Fosdick, A. E. Taylor, Rabbi Wise, Dean Inge, etc., with no thorough examination of the cosmologies underlying any of the opinions. The chapter on "Various Kinds of Bodies," a series of such quotations, reminds one of the descriptions of the "momeraths." The effect is that of having heard the last five minutes of a hundred sermons. There is a rather extensive bibliography, but no index.
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