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Excerpt from Recollections of a Long Life My father felt a deep interest in biography, but was persuaded that it should be confined within narrow limits. He thought that, as Dean Burgon said, while yet the man lived freshly in the memory of his friends, while his sayings were remembered, and his aspect and demeanor were easily recalled, then one who knew him well should commit to paper a living image of the man, should so exhibit him that later generations might feel that they had seen and known him. Many of the world's good men have no personal memorial because this was not done. I have not attempted a complete biography of my father, but I aided him in preparing for the press these Recollections of a Long Life, which in part were published in the Protestant Episcopal Review about six years ago. Subsequent conversations have added more material, and the entire work has been carefully examined and re-edited. His published discourses and the admirable sketch of the Alumni by Dr. Dalrymple have also been used. His life and work touched many other lives, therefore these recollections have a wider interest than for his family alone. I trust they may preserve his person and memory from oblivion. The greatest thing a man sometimes leaves is not a book, but a personality. "The greatest book in the world is so great because of the personality that is in it, and thus in their degree with all others. If we had to choose between a mere book without a living personality in it and a living personality without a book, we should prefer the last. It may disappear for a time in other lives, but it has done its work, and it will live and come to light in its results on a day when the sun shall no more go down." 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.