Life : its nature, varieties, & phenomena / by Leo H. Grindon.

  • Leopold Hartley Grindon
Date:
[1863]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Life : its nature, varieties, & phenomena / by Leo H. Grindon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ns indicating earnestness of conviction; anything like dogmatising is altogetlier disclaimed. They are views which have brought inexpres- sible happiness to the writer; and they are offered in the hope that, while they may render the strange mystery of life less perplexing, they will help to render others happy likewise. That the book is in many respects greatly deficient, no one can become more sensible than the author is. It would be remarkable were it otherwise, when the vast extent of the subject is considered, and the impossibility of compressing it into moderate limits. Ordi- narily, those subjects have been preferred for consideration which are least commonly attended to. Some may seem to call for more lengthy treatment than they receive ; but they are designedly curtailed, because already discussed in extenso by authors of repute. The incompleteness of the remarks iipon others, is compensated in the author’s separate waitings. A large number of quotations will be found, ample reference being made to the authorities in all the more important of them, and the remainder acknowledged in the usual manner. The reader who is acquainted with the authors cited, will not regret to meet old friends; and to the younger student, they may be valuable as pointing to new sources of information. Inserted, as a considerable portion of them have been, purely from memory, exercised over a long and diversified course of reading, it has been impossible always to authenticate mi- nutely. For the benefit of the younger reader, copious references to the literature of the subject are also inti-oduced; the book foiming, in this respect, a kind of index. Appended will be found an appropriate adjunct to the subject of Life, in the shape of a little essay on ‘ Times and Seasons.’