The Life of R. W. Dale

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Excerpt from The Life of R. W. Dale: Of Birmingham But for the pleasant duty of thanking those who have helped me in my work, I should not have encumbered this memoir with a preface. As something must be said, may I add a few words of personal explanation? Let me say at once that the burden of the biographer was one from which I shrank. The sin of Ham lies as an open pit in the way of any son who writes his father's life, and the determination not to say too much may easily lead him to say too little. Had it been possible, therefore, I should have left the task to others. But it soon appeared that the friends - they were but few - who might have undertaken the work were fully occupied in other duties, and that if any memoir were to be written I must write it. And so, accepting a responsibility that I should never have sought, I have tried to discharge it as best I could. The shortcomings, of which I am only too conscious, would have been even greater than they are but for the kindness of those who have come to my aid. The inherent difficulties were increased by special causes. My father kept no diary, except for two or three short periods far on in life. The men with whom he was most closely associated in public work he met every week. He was in London so often that he had no need to write at length about questions of lasting interest to Dr. Allon, Dr. Guinness Rogers, and his other friends. 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.