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Excerpt from As We Are and as We May Be
Logically arranged, is asked to notice the date in each case fixed to them. Almost without exception, those passages which cannot fail to strike him as nearly exact repetitions, whether of argument or of example, will be seen to have been written at considerable intervals of time. A series of papers, composed in diferent circumstances, and with no design of collec tive re-issue in any particular form, will always present these repetitions and they serve to emphasize the author' s message. The lapse of time will also account for the apparent inaccuracy of a few state ments, and for the fact that some of the occurrences alluded to in the future tense were accomplished during Sir Walter Besant's lif�time. As We Are and As We May Be is the exposition of a practical philan thropist's creed, and of his hopes for the progress of his fellow-countrymen. Some of these hopes may never be realized some he had the great happiness to see bear fruit. And for the realization of all he spared no pains. The personal service of humanity, that in these pages he urges repeatedly on others, he was himself ever the first to give.
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