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Excerpt from Personal and Professional Recollections
In the latter part of the twelfth century, Bald win Du Bourges (my patronymic was thus spelled at that time), joined the Christian militant forces then attempting to wrest Palestine from the con trol of its Mohammedan rulers. As a valiant Crusader, he was rewarded by being chosen the third King of Jerusalem, with the title of Bald win II. The fact that Baldwin II, the Free Ma son, and devotee to the relief of suffering man kind, has an humble counterpart in myself is a peculiar but none the less gratifying coincident. It appears to me to be a sentiment which might be pardoned if I think that, possibly, his ideas and ideals have been transmitted from father to son through more than twenty-five genera-tions. 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.
