The North British Review, Vol. 26
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Excerpt from The North British Review, Vol. 26: November, 1856, and February, 1857 The high place which Thomas Chalmers occupies in the religious history of Scotland, he holds securely; it is a position which he will not lose, unless a time shall come when John Knox and other worthies of the like stamp shall have ceased to be thought of in their native country with reverential gratitude. But the rank which his writings will ultimately hold in the body of English literature is a point yet to be determined; and at present it can be only conjecturally spoken of, and this on the ground of considerations of quite a different order from those which affect his place in the regards of his countrymen. Nevertheless, on this ground we do not hesitate to profess the belief that, as a religious writer and as a theologian, he will live. A distinction, however, must here be made: - The "Works," entire, of Dr. Chalmers, will, no doubt, continue to be sought after, through a course of many years, and will often be reprinted in their mass for the use of Scotland, and of England too, buoyed up, as one might say, by his immortal renown, as one of the best and the ablest, and the most useful of the great men whom Scotland has in any age produced. The grateful and religious Scottish people at home as well as those thousands of the "dispersion," who are scattered over the face of the earth, will (so we imagine) for generations yet to come regard it as a sacred duty to possess themselves of the Works Entire of their own Chalmers. And, moreover, among these purchasers and readers of the Works, there will always be many who will draw from certain portions of them a large amount of their spiritual and theological aliment, and who will think themselves well and sufficiently disciplined, and kept safely orthodox, and evangelical, so long as they are content to sit at the feet of this revered teacher. But when we come to think of English literature at large, and to think of it as influenced or favoured by no special or national feelings, it is quite certain that the "Works" will undergo a severe sifting. Portions - large portions, of the mass, we cannot doubt, must subside and at no distant date, will cease to be often asked for, or popularly read. The works of the very best writers (if voluminous) have undergone the same discerptive process. Nor has any human reputation hitherto been of such plenary force as might suffice for immortalizing every paragraph or treatise that a man has written and printed. Assuredly Chalmers will not stand his ground as an exception to this almost universal doom - a doom which has consigned to oblivion a half - a three-fourths - or a nine-tenths of the products of even the brightest minds; especially if they have been, in their day, teeming and industrious minds, and if such writers have mixed themselves at large with the social and political movements of their times. 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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