Excerpt from Lectures and Addresses
Among the offices of friendship none is more agreeable, none more consistent with the better parts of our intellectual and spiritual nature, than that which suggests the introduction of an author's book - gift of his brain and heart - to the public by some one of his associates. In such a case esteem and affectionate regard are the sentiments which inspire the choice, and to a large degree determine the character of the product. It is as if friend should accompany friend on the sunny morning of his marriage-day, walking at times a few steps before him, and giving him a hand, if somewhere the path be narrow, and saying at the door of the crowded church, "This is our guest, the groom."
It is a sentiment, a motive such as this, which provokes the present introduction, and gives thereto whatever value and appropriateness it may possess. For a long time the writer of the same and the author of this volume have journeyed much together in the far-reaching highways and byways of the mortal life.
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