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Excerpt from The Brothers Wiffen: Memoirs and Miscellanies Places for the weary Pilgrims along Eastern roads, so must it be deemed meritorious to pro vide shelters for the combatants in the intervals of the Battle of Life The wear and tear of mind and heart need the solace of quiet sympathiz ing thought. Such will be found in the lives and writings of the two Brothers here presented: men whose pursuits, though not dazzling to their fellow travellers, were yet connected with the real progress of society, as well as its quiet enjoyments; for we agree with Mr. Carlyle, who says, that man's function is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things. The reader will find the two Wiffens to have been men whose deep and yet wide views, and graceful thoughts, in advance of their generation in their own society, are worthy of permanent record for the future use and pleasure. 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.