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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Sydney Dobell We can only plead that we have endeavoured to 'nothing extenuate, ' and to let the man as he was, speak, in great measure, directly for himself. His deficiencies will appear in the self-revelations of his letters, which also bear frequent, though rarely adequate, witness to the indefinable, and, to all who came in contact with it, the magnetic nobility of a nature too highly strung to be universally appreciated. Sydney Dobell's last book was published in 1856, when he was in his thirty-third year. After that time physical conditions made it impossible for him to complete any important literary work. But even the fragmentary results of his intermittent labour should have a peculiar interest, in an age so strongly marked as our own by the eager revival of those religious and philosophical speculations to which so much of his energy was directed. 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.