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Excerpt from Life of Antonio Rosmini Serbati, Vol. 1 of 2: Founder of the Institute of Charity TO write the Life of a truly great man is a formidable undertaking. The present writer's chief qualification for the task is an earnest desire to do his best to set before the public a faithful picture of one, every feature of whom - as boy, youth, and man - and every phase of whose whole career he has for years studied closely. Antonio Rosmini was not only a Priest who had led a life of singular holiness, a life heartily and heroically devoted to the love of God and the good of his fellow men but he was also a profoundly learned writer commissioned by three successive Popes to do battle for Christian Philosophy. It has been said of St Ignatius of Loyola that his mission was to restore the principle of authority, and to give back to Christian Obedience its glory and beauty. 1 In like manner it would seem to have been the mission of Antonio Rosmini to restore the principle of objective Truth, and to give back to Christian Philosophy its unity, harmony, and prestige. 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.