Excerpt from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr???d???ric Amiel Introduction and Notes Opher for whom the things of the soul were the sovereign realities of existence. Thus modestly announced, the little volume made its quiet debut. It contained nothing, or almost nothing, of ordinary biographical material. M. Scherer's Intro duction supplied such facts as were absolutely necessary to the understanding of Amiel's intellectual history, but nothing more. Everything of a local or private character that could be ...
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Excerpt from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr???d???ric Amiel Introduction and Notes Opher for whom the things of the soul were the sovereign realities of existence. Thus modestly announced, the little volume made its quiet debut. It contained nothing, or almost nothing, of ordinary biographical material. M. Scherer's Intro duction supplied such facts as were absolutely necessary to the understanding of Amiel's intellectual history, but nothing more. Everything of a local or private character that could be excluded was excluded. The object of the editors in their choice of passages for publication was declared to be simply the reproduction of the moral and intellectual physiognomy of their friend, while M. Scherer expressly disclaimed any biographical intentions, and limited his Introduction as far as possible to a study of the character and thought of Amiel. The con tents of the volume, then, were purely literary and philo Sophical its prevailing tone was a tone of introspection, and the public which can admit the claims and overlook the inherent defects of introspective literature has always been a small one. The writer of the Journal had been during his lifetime wholly unknown to the general Euro pean public. In Geneva itself he had been commonly re garded as a man who had signally disappointed the hopes and expectations of his friends, whose reserve and inde cision of character had in many respects spoiled his life, and alienated the society around him; while his profes sional lectures were generally pronounced dry and nu attractive, and the few volumes of poems which repre sented almost his only contributions to literature had nowhere met with any real cordiality of reception. Those concerned, therefore, in the publication of the first vol ume of the Journal can hardly have had much expecta tion of a wide success. Geneva is not a favorable starting point for a French book, and it may well have seemed that not even the support of M. Scherer's name would be likely to carry the volume beyond a small local circle. 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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