The Fortnightly Club (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Fortnightly ClubWhen I began taking notes of the proceedings of our Fortnightly Club I had no idea of the length - and depth - to which they would lead me. I was in the early stages of learning shorthand, and welcomed the chance of practice. A great deal of what I took down was of very slight interest, and quite disjointed, but the series of addresses in which Professor Launceston opened several of our debates had a consecutive interest which made them constructive parts of a single whole, working to a conclusion of which I had no glimpse when I began recording them. I do not know how far Launceston foresaw at first. I am sure that he did not start with an idea of giving us, in successive addresses, a thought-out plan of the way and purpose of the evolution of terrestrial life: he would have thrown keen scorn on the idea had it been suggested. But I know that his subject gripped him, as he came to grips with it. He liked putting his thought into words and hearing its sound and seeing how it might he received, and it gave him rest from the experiments with poison gases which was his special war work - for the war was in the third year of its evil life at the time.I do not suppose that Launceston's thought actually grew as he went along.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.