Essays in buff.

Date:
1903
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Essays in buff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at the same time puts a barrier to the quest for good as yet unattained. The following pages have been written in a spirit the opposite of that which I have described. Because the topics here discussed are grave, because they are delicate, difficult, dangerous, there- fore the writer has essayed to deal with them to the best of his ability, if so he might by any means throw light on some dark places in the path of life, thereby to find out the cleaner and the surer way. As the first essay will show, he began his task half in jest, but he has ended it wholly in earnest; as one who, setting forth upon a voyage of pleasure or amusement, should be driven by wind and tide to encounter the risks of adventure, and engage in the pursuit of discovery. For in that endeavour to “see life io