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Excerpt from The Shade of the Past: For the Celebration of the Second Century Since the Establishment of the Thursday Lecture
What is the past, but a spirit, a shade, an image, like that which Eliphaz the Temanite saw in his vision? It is an unsubstantial, hollow form, from which the life has departed. We call it up as from the dead. It flits before the fancy like one of those dim ghosts, that peopled the under-world both of Grecian and Hebrew poetry, and that present themselves to us again in the melancholy mythology of the North, robed in grey mists and faint meteors; in either case possessing no part of their former strength, and uttering their speech in the sigh of the night-wind or a whisper out of the dust. 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.
