Excerpt from Two Men of Taunton: In the Course of Human Events, 1731-1829 When the long-labored-on, semi-fictional chap ters were submitted to venerable antiquarians, the author received the rather pointed injunction to forswear all fancy on the ground that Fact is more fascinating than Fiction; and after all, per haps the finest charm of a story lies in measuring the incidents of one's own life with those which have actually happened to another; in knowing what that person was doing when at the same age; what relation the ...
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Excerpt from Two Men of Taunton: In the Course of Human Events, 1731-1829 When the long-labored-on, semi-fictional chap ters were submitted to venerable antiquarians, the author received the rather pointed injunction to forswear all fancy on the ground that Fact is more fascinating than Fiction; and after all, per haps the finest charm of a story lies in measuring the incidents of one's own life with those which have actually happened to another; in knowing what that person was doing when at the same age; what relation the individual bore to the mass of humanity; what scenes his eyes beheld; what were his tastes and humors; what his changing points of view; how he governed his passions; and espe cially (for this is the real man) what thoughts went drifting through his brain from the mother's knee to tottering age. Our heroes, of course, passed through the same tremulous mental condi tions as do we to-day hope and melancholy, light and darkness, love and jealousy, pride and renunciation, temptation and triumph (the old passions remain the same, mind whetting against mind, heart wrestling with heart) and it is the relation of these human passions to the different settings and varying times which makes the local color. 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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