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Excerpt from Death and the Life Beyond: In the Light of Modern Religious Thought
The city of Melbourne, to overflowing audi ences, which comprised every section of the community. They evoked extraordinary interest amongst all classes. Delivered from notes, they were taken down by steno graphers and published weekly in the Southern Cross, from which journal they are now, after a certain revision, reprinted. The style, peculiar to spoken utterances, is pre served in the following pages, the author feeling that the many persons who have requested the publication in book form of these lectures would prefer to read them as they were originally delivered. By adhering to this method there is loss as well as gain. Few men can unite to warmth and spontaneity of public address a perfect literary style, and I, certainly, am not of their rare number. If there is a loss from this point of View, I hope that the gain in the other direction will prove to be more than a compensation for it. At least; I think I can claim that the lectures are free from that vice of highly coloured. 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.
