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F.W.H. Myers

Born

in Keswick, Cumberland, The United Kingdom

February 06, 1843

Died

January 17, 1901

Genre

Poetry

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Frederic William Henry Myers was a poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research. Myers' work on psychical research and his ideas about a "subliminal self" were influential in his time, but have not been accepted by the scientific community.

Myers was the son of Revd Frederic Myers (1811–1851) and his second wife Susan Harriet Myers nee Marshall. He was a brother of poet Ernest Myers (1844–1921) and of Dr. Arthur Thomas Myers (1851–1894). His maternal grandfather was the wealthy industrialist John Marshall (1765–1845).

Myers was educated at Cheltenham College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received a B.A. in 1864, and university prizes, including the Bell, Craven, Camden and Chancellor's Medal ...more

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	Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death 3.83 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1903 — 132 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wordsworth 3.87 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2007 — 169 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Personality: And its Survival of Bodily Death (Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge) (Volume 1) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1903 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death Part 2 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1903 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint Paul 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Science and a Future Life: with Other Essays (Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essays Classical it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“In the boundless ocean of mind innumerable currents and tides shift with the shifting emotion of each several soul.”
― F.W.H. Myers, Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death

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“I contend that Religion and Science are no separable or independent provinces of thought or action; but rather that each name implies a different aspect of the same ideal;—that ideal being the completely normal reaction of the individual spirit to the whole of cosmic law.”
― F.W.H. Myers, Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death

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“For many men the difficulty of belief is not so much in defect of trustworthy evidence as in the unintelligibility, the incoherence of the phenomena described, which prevents them from being retained in the mind or assimilated with previous knowledge.”
― F.W.H. Myers, Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death

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