Lafcadio Hearn
Exotics and Retrospectives
Paperback
(Forgotten Books June 7, 2017)
Excerpt from Exotics and Retrospectives
Little essays, or rather fantasies, forming the second part of the book, deal with experiences in two hemispheres; but their general title should explain why they have been arranged independ ently of that fact. To any really scientific im agination, the curious analogy existing between certain teachings of evolutional psychology and certain teachings of Eastern faith, particularly the Buddhist doctrine that all sense-life is Karma, and all substance only the phenomenal result of acts and thoughts, - might have suggested some thing much more significant than my cluster of Retrospectives. These are ofl'ered merely as in. Timations of a truth incomparably less difficult to recognize than to define.
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Little essays, or rather fantasies, forming the second part of the book, deal with experiences in two hemispheres; but their general title should explain why they have been arranged independ ently of that fact. To any really scientific im agination, the curious analogy existing between certain teachings of evolutional psychology and certain teachings of Eastern faith, particularly the Buddhist doctrine that all sense-life is Karma, and all substance only the phenomenal result of acts and thoughts, - might have suggested some thing much more significant than my cluster of Retrospectives. These are ofl'ered merely as in. Timations of a truth incomparably less difficult to recognize than to define.
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.
- ISBN
- 1330581784 / 9781330581780
- Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 15.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.7 in.
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