Andrew Bruce Davidson (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Andrew Bruce DavidsonAfter the death of Heinrich Ewald at Gottingen (may 4, Professor Davidson evidently had thoughts of giving an introductory lecture at the New College on the great scholar who had been his most inspiring teacher. His intention was not carried out, for what he wrote is a mere fragment, but the opening words will serve well as a preface to the present Memoir. Ewald's Life, ' he says, 'has not yet been written, and perhaps never will be written. The lives of scholars afford few materials for biographies such as idle people love to read. These are spent in retirement, and though they often contain his tories of profound interest, they are in the main mental histories, and few but the men themselves are aware of them, and, knowing that every thinking mind has a history as well as their own, there are but few who consider the vicissitudes of their own inner life of sufficient importance to be made known to the world. In some cases, indeed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.