Social Life and Literature Fifty Years Ago (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Social Life and Literature Fifty Years Ago

I venture also to hope that those who are disposed to be censorious will re flect that the full adolescence of human intellect may not even yet have been reached. Fifty years seems a very long period to look upon in advance, but it will seem very short when viewed in the retrospect; and there is a bare possibility that names which now flash upon us from every book-stall may then hold no higher place in the world's es timation than they now assign to the writers who entertained us at that day.

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Excerpt from Social Life and Literature Fifty Years Ago

In publishing this monograph anonymously, I have no wish to seek concealment, but simply to let my statements rest on their own merits.

Its publication has been urged by friends who sympathized with its sentiments, and in whose judgment I have confidence.

I may say I have spoken of the living in no severer terms than they have applied to those who can no longer reply, but whose memory lives too vividly in my affections to suffer me to remain silent.

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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.