Linguistic and Oriental Essays, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from Linguistic and Oriental Essays, Vol. 1: Written From the Year 1840 to 1897 "Ecce Iterum Crispinus!" I really ought not to have done it, yet I have the audacity at the age of seventy-seven to publish two more volumes. It so happened that I took stock last year of my published books, contributions to periodicals, and printed matter of every kind, and I found that up to the end of 1897 their number exceeded twelve hundred, the earliest dating as far back as 1840, and the number of periodicals contributed to exceeding seventy. I have been tempted to bring some of these scattered effusions together, and reprint them as a Fifth Series. The composition of some of them cost me days, if not years, of labour, and they may be of use to students and scholars of the next generation to criticize honestly, condemn stupidly, or make use of. In my partial justification I quote two passages; (1) "Much of modern journalism is too good to be willingly let "die at the end of the natural term of life for a periodical. It "is no misplaced vanity, which makes many a writer feel this, and "yet the experiment of reprinting in a volume is dangerous, and is "very likely to end in disappointment. For a book of reprinted "articles to have any chance in the crowd and hurry of modern "life it must have some very special character; the author must "have a touch unlike other people´s, or the information which "he has to give must be something, that cannot easily be found elsewhere." (2) In a Review of the Essays of the late Mr. Romanes occurs the following passages: "An author himself is generally a severe critic of his occasional "work. Mr. Romanes´ mind was essentially a progressive one; "he was singularly candid in acknowledging the almost organic "changes, which the tone and cast of his thought underwent in the "course of a life devoted with rare fidelity to high scientific aims "and to the disinterested pursuit of truth. 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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