Bernard of Clairvaux

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Excerpt from Bernard of Clairvaux: The Times, the Man, and His Work, An Historical Study in Eight Lectures It was the purpose of the writer, after delivering the Lectures, to supply at once such references and notes as should seem needful, and then to commit them to the press. But he became immediately occupied in pre paring another longer series, previously promised to another institution, on a widely different theme, and the manuscripts already in hand had therefore to be laid aside till time might come for what it was fore seen would be the considerable labor of selecting and arranging suitable sustaining or illustrative notes. The multitude of cares constantly engaging the atten tion of a pastor in active service, with unexpected and exacting public duties afterward presented, still further delayed the fulfilment of the plan. Having, however, accepted an invitation to deliver the series before the Lowell Institute, the lecturer gladly availed himself of the chance to revise in a measure what he had written, and to point out or transcribe some of the passages in the writings of Bernard or his contemporaries, as well as of previous or subsequent authors, which had been before his mind in his earlier work and so it comes to pass that after an interval greater than was expected the Lectures and Notes appear in this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.