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Tions and aims and ends. Burns thought much good would result if a man could' see himself even as well as other people could see him; a Greek philosopher gratified a gen eral feeling when he sighed forth the advice, Know thyself, while Menander laughed at the imperfection of the advice, and declared it a more important attainment if one could know other people. Murder will out, but this is not true of all the good and bad of human nature. Each soul lives and dies alone. It dwells in a dark room which no one enters. Saint Augustine comes nearest of all the great men of history to having lived and died in a transparent tenement. His soul tore down the heavy curtains and stood forth in full View. He saw himself in a manner so thorough that Burns himself must have felt that in our earth there was one man for whom his couplets were not composed. 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.
