Human Documents

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Excerpt from Human Documents: Character-Sketches of Representative Men and Women of the Time The whole man thinks. The brain itself is only pat of the apparatus by which the individual, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously, guides himself amidst his surroundings. In a thousand fashions day by day he is making the test of his powers, and Nature is returning to him her inexorable verdict. The man's intellectual work is determined in great measure by his physical constitution and his emotional quality. Byron's lame foot and Carlyle's dyspepsia have become classical, and the examples of Swift, Rousseau, Luxembourg, Turenne, Plotinus, Kant, and a thousand others could be cited by way of showing how physical peculiarities may give a cast to a man's whole intellectual life. 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.