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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge, by Arthur Christopher Benson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College Author: Arthur Christopher Benson Release Date: August 4, 2005 [EBook #16438] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMOIRS OF ARTHUR HAMILTON *** Produced by Andrew Sly Etext preparer's note: This text was first published anonymously in 1886. MEMOIRS OF ARTHUR HAMILTON, B.A. OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE Extracted from his letters and diaries, with reminiscences of his conversation by his friend CHRISTOPHER CARR of the same college By Arthur Christopher Benson "Pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di; Carior est illis homo quam sibi." Juvenal DEDICATION To H. L. M. My dear Friend, When you were kind enough to allow me to dedicate this book to you--you, to whose frank discussion of sacred things and kindly indifference to exaggerations of expression I owe so much--I felt you were only adding another to the long list of delicate benefits for which a friend can not be directly repaid. My object has throughout been this: I have seen so much of what may be called the dissidence of religious thought and religious organization among those of my own generation at the Universities, and the unhappy results of such a separation, that I felt bound to contribute what I could to a settlement of this division, existing so much more in word than in fact--a point which you helped me very greatly to grasp. I have been fortunate enough to have seen and known both sides of the battle. I have seen men in the position of teachers, both anxious and competent to position of teachers, both anxious and competent to settle differences, when brought into contact with men of serious God-seeking souls, with the nominal intention of dropping the bandying of words and cries and of attacking principles, me
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