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The Project Gutenberg EBook of My Autobiography, by F. Max Mueller 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.org Title: My Autobiography A Fragment Author: F. Max Mueller Release Date: October 16, 2009 [EBook #30269] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY *** Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY [Illustration: _F. Max Mueller Aged 4._] MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY A FRAGMENT BY THE RT. HON. PROFESSOR F. MAX MUeLLER, K.M. _WITH PORTRAITS_ New York CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1901 COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK PREFACE For some years past my father had, in the intervals of more serious work, occupied his leisure moments in jotting down reminiscences of his early life. In 1898 and 1899 he issued the two volumes of _Auld Lang Syne_, which contained recollections of his friends, but very little about his own life and career. In the Introductory Chapter to the Autobiography he explains fully the reasons which led him, at his advanced age, to undertake the task of writing his own Life, and he began, but alas! too late, to gather together the fragments that he had written at different times. But even during the last two years of his life, and after the first attack of the illness which finally proved fatal, he would not devote himself entirely to what he considered mere recreation, as can be seen from such a work as his _Six Systems of Indian Philosophy_ published in May, 1889, and from the numerous articles which continued to appear up to the very time of his death. During the last weeks of his life, when we all knew that the end could not be far off, the Autobiography was constantly in his thoughts, and his great desire was to leave as much as possible ready for publication. Even when he was lying in bed far too weak to sit up in a chair, he continued to work at the manuscript with me. I would read portions aloud to him, and he would suggest alterations and dictate additions. I see that we were actually at work on
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