Six Major Prophets
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SIX MAJOR PROPHETS
Whoever dies without recognizing the prophet of
his time dies the death of a pagan.
SIX MAJOR
PROPHETS
BY
EDWIN E. SLOSSON, M.S., Ph.D.
LITERARY EDITOR OF "THE INDEPENDENT"
ASSOCIATE IN THE COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
AUTHOR OF "MAJOR PROPHETS OF TO-DAY," ETC.
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1917
Copyright, 1917,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published, April, 1917
Norwood Press
Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Gushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
TO MY SON
PRESTON WILLIAM SLOSSON
WHOSE THOUGHTS AND PHRASES
I HAVE MORE FREELY INCORPORATED
THAN I AM WILLING TO ACKNOWLEDGE
ELSEWHERE THAN ON THIS PAGE,
THIS VOLUME
IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE vii I 1 II 56 III 129 IV 190 V 234 VI 276
LIST OF PORTRAITS
- George Bernard Shaw
Frontispiece - H. G. Wells
Page 98 - G. K. Chesterton
Page" 174 - F. C. S. Schiller
Page" 196 - John Dewey
Page" 252 - Rudolf Eucken
Page" 290
To write a book about a man who has written books about himself is an impertinence which only an irresistible charm of manner can carry off. The unpardonable way of doing it, and the commonest, is to undertake to tell the public what a writer has already told them himself, and tell it worse or tell it wrong.
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