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Excerpt from Thomas Chalmers: A Lecture
Dr. Chalmers needs no fresh annalist or critic. His life by Dr. Hanna is one of the masterpieces of full-length biography; and the briefer sketches of Hugh Miller, John Brown, Isaac Taylor, David Masson, and many others hardly less conspicuous, have added to the blaze of its illumination. To re-write the story of a career so well known would be useless, and in this space hopeless to set forth a new or deeper estimate of its worth and meaning presumptuous. I shall only attempt some scattered notices and rapid criticisms, proper to a passing lecture addressed to young men. The grandeur of the figure can hardly be abated by any treatment, and each fresh attempt to seize it gains something from that later point of survey, which, in the case of all great and epoch-making characters, is given with the very lapse of time. Time, indeed, has not yet done, in this instance, all its work. The life of Chalmers touches on living and excited controversies. But these do not interfere with its Catholic interest; and, so far as it is necessary to speak of them here, they need not provoke strife, but only widen sympathy and enlarge forbearance. The first and pervading impression caught from the life of Dr. Chalmers is that of greatness. Of this, the outward. 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.
