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Excerpt from Recollections of James Martineau: With Some Letters From Him and an Essay on His Religion As this little volume is intended to deal with James Martineau principally as a great spiritual teacher and as a friend in private life, it is scarcely necessary to say very much about the merely external events of his life, though I have a good deal to say as to his personality and his conversations with me. I will give only a brief statement of such outward circumstances as helped to determine his intellectual, moral, and religious character. A very good summary of his long life may be found in an article about him in the "Dictionary of National Biography." No doubt, my friend's French Protestant ancestry to a great extent helped to determine his moral and intellectual nature. His father was a man of fine character, but not remarkable intellectually. His mother was a woman of great force of mind. 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.