[ExI] 'The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death'

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/02d318c8-24e8-11e0-895d-00144feab49a.html

'The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death',
by John Gray, Allen Lane, RRP £18.99, 288 pages

In the review, by Stephen Cave (who is writing a book about immortality for Random House),
one can also read ....

'The first part of the book, however, is not dedicated to the techno-utopians but to those 
whom Gray considers their intellectual predecessors: the worthy figures who together led 
the Society for Psychical Research, the London-based learned society founded in 1882 to 
examine the paranormal. Its members included the cream of Edwardian society, such as the 
Cambridge philosophy professor Henry Sidgwick, the co-discoverer of evolution Alfred 
Russel Wallace, prime minister Arthur Balfour and the poet WB Yeats.'