Volumetric analysis: by M. Kolthoff and V. A. Stenger. Volume I—second revised edition, 309 pages, illustrations, 16 × 24 cms. New York, Interscience Publishers, Inc., 1942. Price $4.50
✍ Scribed by R.H. Oppermann
- Book ID
- 104133148
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1942
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 62 KB
- Volume
- 234
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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✦ Synopsis
In the first and larger part of this book, the author examines what he believes to be the relationship between body and self. In this, he defines body to be the material, physical, physiological organism of man. By self, he means body plus psychic powers. On this, he develops the thought that there is a chasm between the conscious self and the functioning body which is unexplainable, and generally man ignores this chasm. Proceeding onward, he examines the sensorium, which is the real conscious self, so that for practical purposes body and self are organically and functionally one and the self-same thing. Various phases of consciousness, covered in the same vein, are perceptions, the feeling of pain, and the use of the other senses--thinking, conceiving, the relation of knowing. There is much here that arouses the emotions either for or against the reasoning expressed. The matter is easy to read, the conclusions clearly drawn, but, aside from a pure thought-inspiring purpose, it is difficult to find any direct, definite, practical purpose served by the exposition.
The latter part of the book is devoted to reprints of occasional brief pieces of literature which were privately published, and quite widely distributed. They include the subjects of cosmic rays, matter, and its definition.
R. H. OPPERMANN.
VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS, by M. Kolthoff and V. A. Stenger. Volume I--second revised edition, 3o9 pages, illustrations, I6