Excerpt from Three Great Teachers of Our Own Time: Being an Attempt to Deduce the Spirit and Purpose Animating Carlyle, Tennyson and RuskinThese essays were composed mostly in the intervals of arduous professional duty. The writer states this not with any idea of forestalling criticism, but rather that his readers may know that the task has been taken up can amore. The nature of the views advanced, and the persistent attempts made to find out and to fix not only the progressive unity of life and work in each of our three great writers - Carlyle, Tennyson and Ruskin, - but a unity also of Spirit and purpose binding them together into a suggestive trio, will, he fondly hopes, favourably recommend them to the daily-augmenting ranks of the thoughtful and inquiring. At any rate the author commits his volume trustfully to the hands of those who may be interested in any worthy word spoken regarding either or all of them.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.