Ethica or Characteristics of Men, Manners Books (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Ethica or Characteristics of Men, Manners BooksThe literary life of the past two centuries, like the social, has a large element of anecdote in it, by the contem plation of which alone it can be fully realized. Stray waifs - straws in the intellectual atmosphere - not infre quently afford material for the most efficacious mental characterization, where the formal facts of biography proper, though at first sight more imposing, give a less authentic portraiture. To arrest these motes of intelligence, now fast eluding the ken of the present generation, and to winnow them on the threshing-¿oor of biological criticism, is my object. The title of the Work sufficiently interprets its aim, but it is fair to add, that the titles attached to the several chapters give a very far from adequate idea of their actual contents. It should be stated that Chapters I., IV., and VII., are reprinted, with considerable additions, from the British Quarterly Review, to whose editor the author desires to make his cordial acknowledgment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.