Excerpt from Bridging the Great Divide, Vol. 1: Between the Physical and the Spiritual Worlds The substance of this volume is the result of a truth-seeker's painstaking researches. Again and again he had to make the humiliating confession of Goethe's Faust: I've studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine, - And even, alas! Theology, - From end to end, with labor keen; And here, poor fool! with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before,... And see that nothing can be known! - Although intuitively believing in the immortality of the Soul, the author was not cognizant of any scientific possibility that could raise this belief to a demonstrable certainty. Inspiring and comforting as the pages of the New Testament were to him, even they proved to be inadequate fully to satisfy the Soul's Craving for Knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.