IV. WHY MEN ARE HANGED ... 114 III. CRIME AND KARMA ... ... 103 II. PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SEER ... 55 I. THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOUL ... 5 M. N. ROY CHAPTER BY PREFACE incentive for the study of criminology as a part of social science. On the whole, the book is written with the purpose of provoking thought. It is too small a work to do more than indicate the scientific approach to the difficult problem of overcoming the age-long tyranny of superstition. Dehradun, July 1940. M. N. ROY