Excerpt from Seekers After Soul
The author of this volume deems it but justice to himself and to the reading public as well, to say: There was no intention of making a book when the matter herein contained was first prepared. The chapter on "The Persistence of Ideas" is the essence of a Thesis presented a few years ago to the Faculty of Washington and Lee University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This, with the chapters on Plato, Kant and Hegel have since been rewritten and cast into a more popular form: they are now published for the first time. In the meantime the chapters on Job and Browning had been published in a somewhat different form from that in which they now appear, in the "Methodist Review," Nashville, Tenn.
It was not easy to find a title which would adequately cover and describe the varied work of this little volume. Without any specific intention on the author's part, he found that, while stressing the salient doctrines of some of the men who had, in his estimation, influenced most the thought of the world, he had in every case selected a champion of Soul as against Matter. The men whose lives and labors are particularized in this book have been earnest seekers after that spiritual Something which lies back of mere matter, but which is manifested in and through matter.
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