This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II JOHN VIRIAMU JONES Oxford Life: 1876-1881 Written in 1903: revised in 1910 When my eldest daughter was a small thing she told me of a hypothesis her sweet child fancy had framed in order to explain some workings of the mind and the characteristics of different people. The human body, with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II JOHN VIRIAMU JONES Oxford Life: 1876-1881 Written in 1903: revised in 1910 When my eldest daughter was a small thing she told me of a hypothesis her sweet child fancy had framed in order to explain some workings of the mind and the characteristics of different people. The human body, with its brain above and digestive organs below, was tenanted by a host of attendant elves. Greedy people kept them busily employed, overworked in fact, in the lower regions, in kitchens and sculleries. How then was it possible for work to be done in the libraries and laboratories in the upper story? Wiser people kept most of their attendants upstairs, where they were always hard at work taking photographs and phonograms of everything seen and heard, and arranging these neatly on shelves to be taken down for future reference. Often the elves registered actively and well, but arranged badly or carelessly broke the records, so that the unfortunate employer had muddled thoughts or a poor memory. I have elaborated the metaphor a little, but it is substantially unchanged, and it naturally occurs to me as I try to recall events and sayings a quarter of a century back, the details of the closest, the most intimate friendship I have ever known with man. 1876-81 The value of a true picture 33 If the story of a great man's life is to yield its full measure of inspiration and guidance, the picture must be complete as well as true, --free from the obliterating no less than the distorting effects of the atmosphere through which it is seen. Some there are whose loving solicitude would carefully erase everything that was not of the highest, leaving the impression of a uniform level of perfection it is not in human nature to sustain. There are others again who..
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