Thomas Hardy

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Excerpt from Thomas Hardy: The Artist, the Man and the Disciple of Destiny, a Lecture Delivered Before La Société Internationale, De Philologie, Science Et Beaux-Arts, on April 11, 1921 Mr. Whitefield in his most interesting lecture has brought the sweet singer of the West very near to us. He has not only delighted us with a description of Thomas Hardy's works but has given us, as it were, a personal introduction to the man himself, whom to know is to love. Never did heart beat more kindly for all creation. His joy in the abounding and perfect life of the countryside is contrasted with his infinite compassion for human failings. 'Could we but find our beings clue, And live as birds and flowers do, ' says Lowell. Possibly the aspiring central shoot of human evolution may eventually reach a perfection such as that of the terminal twigs in the genealogical tree, which may be taken to represent those fellow creatures whom we call the lower animals. Our eyes have been opened to the sense of good and evil, but we have not tasted the healing fruit of the tree of life. 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.