Methodist Quarterly Review, 1854, Vol. 36 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Methodist Quarterly Review, 1854, Vol. 36 (Classic Reprint) written by J. M'clintock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Methodist Quarterly Review, 1854, Vol. 36 N e biographies are more instructive than tliose of men of intellect and culture, when made up from their letters, diaries, or private memoranda. The absence of mere incident is no drawback upon the value of such lives. What we want in such a case is the his tory, not so much of what the man did or sufi'ered, as of what he thought and felt, and how he came so to think and feel. This inner history ofa man ofgenius is not often to be gathered from his pub lished works. These generally exhibit conclusions, not processes; the fruits of the mind, not its growth. The true stamp of a man's mord and intellectual nature is impressed far more strongly upon his free conversations, and upon his open and frank letters to his friends, than upon writings painfully elaborated for the public eye. And guarded upon the right hand and the left against misconcep tion and perversion. In his books the man of genius withholds far more of himself than he reveals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.