The Life of S. Elizabeth of Hungary

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Excerpt from The Life of S. Elizabeth of Hungary: Duchess of Thuringia The practical utility of religious biography, when the objects are wisely selected and fitly treated, is that it serves to show Christianity in action as a life, and not merely in theory as a speculation. No kind of literary composition has been more misused, from the narrowness, credulity, or partisanship of biographers. For they have by overloading their heroes with indiscriminate praise, or by heaping up gradual accretions of miracles over the simple record of the original facts - as in the later lives of S. Francis Xavier - or yet again by singling out for admiring comment exactly the least beautiful and saintlike episodes of the life, but most level to a formal and unspiritual mind, caused actual repulsion from the ideal they were fain to depict, and inspired readers in general with the profoundest distrust of their statements and conclusions. 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.