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The author has his mind open to the play of larger circumstance. His book is great first because his soul has risen to its climax of greatness, but almost as much because he has drawn from his age all that is greatly distinctive of it in addition to what will appeal to all ages. That which has no power of touching the wide heart of humanity must die with its time. But none the less must a great book have its local and temporal elements, its power of addressing the men and women amongst whom it is written; for it must have concrete form, as being the product of imagination, and into imagination the individual life and feelings pass; no more can there be a human being all spirit, without flesh and bones and tissue, than an imaginative book without the features of its time to give it form. But a great book has a soul that is kin with all times ;it has drawn from its age the elements that are the noblest and most universal in their affinities. I ts author has stood on an eminence and watched the passions of his fellowmen come and go, rage or die out as but a part of the vast scene of life; he has known them and taken his share in them, and he still feels them move in his own veins; but he has seen their relation to the everlasting spirit that stirs the heart of humanity, he has seen their place in the scheme of existence and felt their comparative insignificance. Thus he can use them without letting them master his mind or purpose, without making him their partisan.
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The author has his mind open to the play of larger circumstance. His book is great first because his soul has risen to its climax of greatness, but almost as much because he has drawn from his age all that is greatly distinctive of it in addition to what will appeal to all ages. That which has no power of touching the wide heart of humanity must die with its time. But none the less must a great book have its local and temporal elements, its power of addressing the men and women amongst whom it is written; for it must have concrete form, as being the product of imagination, and into imagination the individual life and feelings pass; no more can there be a human being all spirit, without flesh and bones and tissue, than an imaginative book without the features of its time to give it form. But a great book has a soul that is kin with all times ;it has drawn from its age the elements that are the noblest and most universal in their affinities. I ts author has stood on an eminence and watched the passions of his fellowmen come and go, rage or die out as but a part of the vast scene of life; he has known them and taken his share in them, and he still feels them move in his own veins; but he has seen their relation to the everlasting spirit that stirs the heart of humanity, he has seen their place in the scheme of existence and felt their comparative insignificance. Thus he can use them without letting them master his mind or purpose, without making him their partisan.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.
Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve
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