The Father of St. Kilda: Twenty Years in Isolation in the Sub-Arctic Territory of the Hudson's Bay Company (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Roderick Campbell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331656621 ISBN 13 : 9781331656623

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Father of St. Kilda: Twenty Years in Isolation in the Sub-Arctic Territory of the Hudson''s Bay Company

IT was said long ago, that of the making of books there is no end. I, too, wisely or unwisely, have made a book. In the fag-end of a weary century we have attained to the prosaic faculty of being able to measure sunshine, weigh winds, and analyse stars, yet the primitive instincts of humanity are still unconquered, still unconquerable. A sun worshipper by nature and early training, I have loved dearly a life in the open air. Is it then folly, ignorance, or presumption that tempts me to become an author? My audacity stares me in the face. Yet one must accomplish something, says Goethe, nay, fail in something, to learn to know one''s own capacities and those of others. We discover an unsuspected vein in us, only in beginning to work it. And so work grows out of faith, and it takes both to make a man. It is by toil alone that we arrive at our true selves. Only by polishing do we reach the peculium of a diamond - its light-giving faculty; and only by the same process do we discover the hidden powers of a man, his peculiar office and function in the world, which none other can exactly fill.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331656621
• ISBN 13: 9781331656623
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 355
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