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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Humanly Speaking, by Samuel McChord Crothers 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: Humanly Speaking Author: Samuel McChord Crothers Release Date: May 20, 2005 [EBook #15866] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HUMANLY SPEAKING *** Produced by David Garcia, Bethanne M. Simms and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HUMANLY SPEAKING BY SAMUEL McCHORD CROTHERS BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY MDCCCCXII COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published November 1912_ * * * * * By Samuel M. Crothers HUMANLY SPEAKING. AMONG FRIENDS. BY THE CHRISTMAS FIRE. THE PARDONER'S WALLET. THE ENDLESS LIFE. THE GENTLE READER. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: THE AUTOCRAT AND HIS FELLOW BOARDERS. With Portrait. MISS MUFFET'S CHRISTMAS PARTY. Illustrated. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK * * * * * CONTENTS HUMANLY SPEAKING IN THE HANDS OF A RECEIVER THE CONTEMPORANEOUSNESS OF ROME THE AMERICAN TEMPERAMENT THE UNACCUSTOMED EARS OF EUROPE THE TORYISM OF TRAVELERS THE OBVIOUSNESS OF DICKENS THE SPOILED CHILDREN OF CIVILIZATION ON REALISM AS AN INVESTMENT TO A CITIZEN OF THE OLD SCHOOL The author wishes to express his thanks to the Editors of the _Atlantic Monthly_ and the _Century Magazine_ for their courtesy in permitting the publication in this volume of certain essays which have appeared in their magazines. HUMANLY SPEAKING "Humanly speaking, it is impossible." So the old theologian would say when denying any escape from his own argument. His logical machine was going at full speed, and the grim engineer had no notion of putting on the brakes. His was a non-stop train and there was to be no slowing-down till he reached the terminus. But in the middle of the track was an indubitable fact. By all the rules of argumentation it had no business to be there, trespassing on the right of way. But there it was! We trembled to think of the impending collision. But the
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