Festus A Poem By Pj Bailey By Pj Bailey

Author : Philip James Bailey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428361556
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Festus written by Philip James Bailey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Festus: A Poem The author, in preparing, on the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, a final revision of this poem, has been advised by friends whose opinions he much esteems, to foresay to a rising generation of students, a few words indicative briefly of certain leading features which have, more or less from the beginning, (as illustrating the ultimate triumph of good over evil), distinguished the work, from others conversant with a like class of topics; and to make some alterations in the current issue which, it is believed, will recommend themselves to the judgment of the oh servant reader. The poem has been taken to be a sketch of world-life, and is a summary of its combined moral and physical conditions, estimated on a theory of spiritual things, opposed as far as possible to that of the partialist, pessi mist and despairing sceptic, the belief of the misbeliever, so prevalent in our time not only in regard to the creation, government and administra tion of the world by divine providence, but in its views as to the origin of the so-called mystery of moral evil; and in its general positions known as universalist, illustrative of the highest aspirations and the happiest future, here and hereafter of humanity. Here, however, it may be as well to premise that, substantially, the poem stands now, and indeed in most of its chief respects remains, unchanged; and it does so for the reason more especially, that very soon after its first appearance, the author perceived the original outline to be sufficiently extensive and elastic to admit almost every variety of classifiable thought, and reasonable enlargement of pur pose upon such matters as human faith, morals and progress could not fail to present to the ripening experiences of life. In the course, however, of years, it becomes almost inevitable, in the case of a living writer, that some things shall have been added, some things, for sundry reasons, varied, and some things taken away. 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.