Excerpt from The Doorkeeper and Other Poems In such a home there may have been what we should think too much spiritual and intellectual stimulus, at the expense of bodily development; but was it not perhaps a fitting nursery for a nature of great possibilities? The intensity of religious thought and feeling, and the transparent sincerity of goodness which made its atmosphere, laid the foundations of principle which the temptations of a medical student's life in London were never able to overcome; while the power of ...
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Excerpt from The Doorkeeper and Other Poems In such a home there may have been what we should think too much spiritual and intellectual stimulus, at the expense of bodily development; but was it not perhaps a fitting nursery for a nature of great possibilities? The intensity of religious thought and feeling, and the transparent sincerity of goodness which made its atmosphere, laid the foundations of principle which the temptations of a medical student's life in London were never able to overcome; while the power of enduring hard ness, learnt as a child, made the more possible his life of unsparing self-devotion in later years. In an interesting paper on Psychical Research' he writes: I think as a boy I rather revelled in the so-called supernatural. I was the youngest of my family, and when the others were away from home, and my elders met on winter evenings for social intercourse, I was not infrequently a quiet, small, and hardly remembered unit of the company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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