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Excerpt from The Life and Philosophy of Edward Caird, LL. D., D. C. L., F. B.A: Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow and Master of Balliol College, Oxford
Caird himself has written of Carlyle: The ordinary gossip of biography is interesting enough, but I must profess for myself an entire disbelief that any important additional light is thrown by it upon the character of men who have otherwise expressed themselves so fully as he. There were well-known reasons why the friends of Carlyle should prefer to judge him by his teaching rather than by the gossip of his biographers. There are none such in the case of Caird. It is in this conviction that the editors have ventured to dis regard his warning and in the first part of this book put together the main facts of a life which, though singularly devoid of events in the ordinary sense, yet in its even flow and its encounter with men and things so accurately reflects the spirit of the man. Their hope is that it will assist those who had the good fortune to know him to recall, those who had not, to realise how entirely of one piece were the teaching and spirit of his writings with those of his life and daily conversation. 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.
