A Candidate for Truth (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Candidate for Truth Cecil Barker's net had a wide mesh. The net was not of his own weaving, it was an inheritance, but among the many nets from which he might have chosen, he selected that with the widest mesh. That choice was the only one possible for Barker, it could hardly be called a free act. He was born with the gambler's spirit, none but the largest fish had any attraction for him, and since he had elected to be a fisher, he had daily staked his professional reputation, even risked much of his capital - another inheritance - in bold casts for the largest, strongest, and most elusive quarry. The metaphor holds good in so many analogies that it is difficult to avoid it, even though it suffers from over-use and age - it is, in this form, nearly nineteen hundred years old. Nevertheless it has this supreme inappropriateness in the present case - Barker himself avoided it with diligence. He had innumerable apt metaphors at the tip of his tongue, metaphors subtle and insinuating, but this was not among them. It was banal, he might have said, but he had a reason that was deeper seated - to speak of himself as a fisherman was to label himself a descendant of Peter, to advertise his purpose. 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.