Excerpt from What Men Live: Work, Play, Love, Worship
This book has been written in many Pullmans and in the homes of many friends. I fear it bears evidence of the Pullmans; I am proudly certain that it shows traces of all the friends, - of Dr. and Mrs. Philip King Brown, of San Francisco; Bruce Porter, of the same impressive city; Maulsby Kimball, of Buffalo; Professor W. E. Hocking, of New Haven; Florence Painter, Rosalind Huidekoper Greene, and Henry Copley Greene, of Boston. The last five have read the entire manuscript, corrected many errors, and put in many improvements; to all I am deeply grateful.
I owe still more to my wife, whose influence appears, I hope, on every page. Other friends, visible and invisible, have also helped, - G. K. Chesterton, Josiah Royce, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and so many others that no title-page would hold their beloved names. I must be content with thanking them for whatever is true and absolving them from whatever is false in the pages to follow.
My title is that of one of Tolstoy's most beautiful stories. Such use of his words is quite in accord with the spirit and letter of his beliefs and with the gratitude which I owe him.
Parts of several chapters have already been printed in the Atlantic Monthly and are here reprinted by courtesy of the editor.
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