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Essays that argue life and civilization are inherently unfinished, and that growth comes from mind, virtue, and patient effort. A thoughtful look at how progress flickers between ambition and imperfection, with practical reflections for daily living.
From rural work to modern leisure, the book examines how intellect and science can liberate labor, why repose matters, and how communities and faith traditions navigate their own incompleteness. Through lively sketches and essays, it invites readers to consider how to live purposefully within the half-finished world we inhabit.
- Explore the idea that no life or society is ever complete, and why that matters for judgment and growth.
- See how mind, machinery, and education can elevate work and elevate the worker.
- Meet vivid character portraits and social observations that highlight daily tensions between action, rest, and duty.
- Reflect on the role of community, marriage, and faith as lifelong processes rather than final achievements.
Ideal for readers who enjoy thoughtful essays on life, work, and virtue, presented with wit and steady humanity.
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Have done more than to organize, and put into form, the average thinking of those who read his books - to place before the people the sum of their own choicer Judgments - and he neither expects nor wishes for these essays higher praise than that which accords to them the of common.
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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.
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I can hardly say better what I wish to say, in presenting to the public the revised edition of this book, than to repeat the words of the original preface, written just twenty years ago: -
"The quick and cordial reception which greeted the author's 'Letters to the Young,' and his more recent series of essays entitled 'Gold Foil,' and the constant and substantial friendship which has been maintained by the public toward those productions, must stand as his apology for this third venture in a kindred field of effort. It should be - and probably is - unnecessary for the author to say that in this book, as in its predecessors, he has aimed to be neither brilliant nor profound.
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.
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