Augustus Conant Illinois Pioneer and Preacher Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Augustus Conant: Illinois Pioneer and PreacherIt touches one to read these things now, and to feel, as you read, that they must have come out of the heart of a man who was all on fire about them. Now they are as dead as the hand that trembled over the pages when they were penned. One or two things still have a spark of life left. Here is a sentence from the introduction to Thoughts on a Man's Spirit being generated with his Body After a long travail of mind about what constitutes or makes up the man, I am now about to conclude, or indeed have con cluded, that I have always been entirely mistaken about the whole matter. But this is almost the.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.