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Excerpt from When I Was a Child
Therefore I have written everything with sheer truthfulness, notwithstanding I often felt quite bashful to confess many things what I had done or I had thought. Now let me tell you how I have recollected my past life. I kept myself quite alone in my room, and shut my eyes and asked my brain about my past. First I saw all surrounding views in my imagination, then I began to make my mental pictures of my family, relatives, and friends. Then I began to hear their voices exactly as they used to talk to me, and I heard my voice plainly that of my childish days. I tried to put down on the paper all my childish feelings as they were on each occasion. As St. Paul said, when I was a child my words and my thoughts were childish, and now my memory of my childish words and thoughts are thickly enveloped into my grown-up thoughts. It is very difficult for me to make my childish thoughts entirely divorced from those of my present life. 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.
