Volume 1

Anna Kingsford, her life, letters, diary and work / by her collaborator Edward Maitland ; illustrated with portraits, views and facsimiles ; edited by Samuel Hopgood Hart.

  • Edward Maitland
Date:
1913
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Credit: Anna Kingsford, her life, letters, diary and work / by her collaborator Edward Maitland ; illustrated with portraits, views and facsimiles ; edited by Samuel Hopgood Hart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of all records which might have reached us across the gulfs of time, but have failed to do so, unquestionably the most precious would be those which contained in detail the history of the world’s foremost Revelators and Saviours, showing the particulars of their characters, training, and careers in such wise as would render intelligible the manner in which, by heeding the divine call and living the divine life, they came to know the divine doctrine, and were able to minister to the world’s redemption by supplying its supreme need—the need for a perfect system of thought and rule of life. In the presence of such records it would have been impossible to doubt the reality and accessibility of the world spiritual and celestial, of inspiration and revelation, or to have fallen into the disastrous misconceptions which in manifold cases have usurped the place of history, and, by ascrib- ing to the Revelators the divinity which inspired them and their work, have ministered to the falsification and degradation of religion. It has been made the essential condition of the present record of a work which, whether by its derivation, its nature, or its destined results, is second to none of the kind in view, that it be so ordered as to preclude the possibility of the like or any other misconceptions. The doctrine of the restoration of which this book is the record has already been for some time before the world, and found wide promulgation and high acceptance. But the work of the Revelator is of two kinds, being both doctrinal and experiential or evidential. And the world needs for its full conviction both classes of knowledge. It must have actual facts as well as abstract truth. This record of the former is, therefore, the necessary supplement and complement to the account already made public of the latter. The fulness and frankness of this narrative necessarily exceed xvm
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