Nostradamus | Lee McCann (essay date 1941)
Lee McCann (essay date 1941)
SOURCE: In a foreword and "In the Twentieth Century," in Nostradamus: The Man Who Saw through Time, Creative Age Press, 1941, pp. xi-xvi, 337-421.
[In the following excerpt from a book published during the early years of World War II, McCann emphasizes Nostradamus's significance as a prophet of the world's current time of troubles and as a seer of the end of the age. The critic cites prophecies concerning the rise of Africa and Asia as dominant world powers and the subsequent "birth of a new age with a different type of thought and civilization."]
The rich, actively fulfilled life of the French prophet, Michel de Nostradame, is the story of genius not only in its rarest but its most modern form. His ability foreshadowed a hope, now gaining a first hearing in this our day, that science may, in some not too remote tomorrow, discover principles of mental forces which will permit every man to realize within...
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