Excerpt from Notes of Thought IT has been thought desirable to prefix to these Nores of Thought a brief Memoir of their author. It is an advantage to the readers of any book, and especially of a book like this, to have some personal knowledge of the man whose literary utterances they are invited to study. But besides serving as an introduction to his book, it is hoped that a biographical sketch of Charles Buxton will be interesting to not a few for its own sake. Neither his powers nor his achievements were such as to place him in the rank of those who have exerted a marked in uence on their generation, nor did his career bring him into any special contact with great affairs or illustrious persons; but he was a man whose work in life had a touch of originality and distinction about it not unworthy of notice, and whose character as a whole was of a noble and attractive quality, which ought to lend to these memorial pages something of its own charm. 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.

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