| Autobiography and Selected Essays Contributor(s): Huxley, Thomas Henry (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798709907652 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Science | Essays - Philosophy | Metaphysics - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: 117.846 |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.71 lbs) 132 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerpt: other ways seemed like selfishness and an injustice tothe woman to whom he had been for a long time engaged. MissHeathorn, however, upheld him in his determination to pursuescience; and his sister also, he writes, cheered him by her adviceand encouragement to persist in the struggle. Something of theman's heroic temper may be gathered from a letter which he wrote toMiss Heathorn when his affairs were darkest. "However painful ourseparation may be," he says, "the spectacle of a man who had givenup the cherished purpose of his life . . . would, before long yearswere over our heads, be infinitely more painful." He declares thathe is hemmed in by all sorts of difficulties. "Nevertheless thepath has shown itself a fair one, neither more difficult nor lessso than most paths in life in which a man of energy may hope to domuch if he believes in himself, and is at peace within." Thusrelieved in mind, he makes his decision in spite of adverse fate."My course of life is taken, I will not leave LondRead More |