Excerpt from A New Spirit of the Age, Vol. 1

Inability to find sufficient space is one of the chief causes, in some cases, however, the omission is attributable to a difficulty of classification, or the perplexity induced by a versatility of talents in the same individual. In some cases, also, names honoured in literature, could not be introduced without entering into the discussion of questions of a nature not well suited to a work of this kind - or rather to this division of a possible series - yet with which great questions their names are identified.

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