Excerpt from Personal StudiesAS the years fall away, and the earth empties itself of the voices and presences which made it famous to us, the desire grows strong to make an attempt to convey the memories of those who gave significance to our life down to another generation, to whom they are fast becoming mere names.This may serve me as an excuse, I trust, for venturing to collect and reprint papers and reviews which, in themselves, might be considered fugitive. I have left them practically as they were originally written, because so alone would they tell to others what we thought and what we felt, as, one after another, those who had been our leaders and our prophets passed into the silence.Nearly all were written for the Commonwealth a note at the bottom of the page will explain the origin of those that appeared elsewhere.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.