Excerpt from While I Remember As the art of the novelist demands of him that he should first and foremost be a spectator of life, so the accident of race makes of him an involuntary critic if his lot be cast amid alien surroundings, however con genial; and the further accident of health not always robust may remove him a yet greater distance from the active life of his generation. In so far as this detach ment gives him a separate standard of comparison, it may be not without value in the review of past manners and ideals. ...
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Excerpt from While I Remember As the art of the novelist demands of him that he should first and foremost be a spectator of life, so the accident of race makes of him an involuntary critic if his lot be cast amid alien surroundings, however con genial; and the further accident of health not always robust may remove him a yet greater distance from the active life of his generation. In so far as this detach ment gives him a separate standard of comparison, it may be not without value in the review of past manners and ideals. 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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