Stanley De Brath (10 October 1854 â 20 December 1937) was a British civil engineer, psychical researcher and spiritualist.
Brath was born in Sydenham, Kent. He worked as a civil engineer in India for 17 years. He was most well known for his book Psychic Philosophy as the Foundation of a Religion of Natural Law, published in 1896. Alfred Russel Wallace had written an introduction for the book and considered it of "great lucidity, a philosophy of the universe and of human nature in its threefold aspect of body, soul, and spirit". The book was expanded in 1908 and endorsed by Wallace in a prefatory note.
Brath was a Christian and believed that both Christianity and spiritualism were compatible.
Brath also translated a number of psychical research books into English. He translated Charles Richet's Thirty Years of Psychical Research (1923).
He was the editor of Psychic Science a journal published by the British College of Psychic Science.
His books were criticized by the scientific community. The sociologist Guy Benton Johnson ridiculed Psychical Research, Science, and Religion in a review as an anti-scientific work and only "grand-reading if you have a sense of humor."
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