Preface 
inspired him as with an old man’s seriousness. 
He was not afraid of death but a little timid of 
life. Somehow, more than most men I fancy, he 
felt the vast processes of Being going on around 
him; and they filled him with awe. And this 
too the English fields have had a trick of pro- 
ducing in country folk here and there, through 
many generations. 
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