Addresses and Sermons to Students (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Addresses and Sermons to Students I acknowledge this indebtedness. But there is yet one other matter. I have had recourse - and frequently - to printed words of others upon allied subjects. This does not mean plagiarism. That again is not a point well taken. Every speaker, unless he is so conceited that he thinks his own ideas better always than anything that anybody else has ever said or heard or thought of, will check up his own by the pronouncements of those who have written out of more age or experience. I have done this; but I hope I have used invention of others only by absorption. I have tried to make their thoughts my own by purchase, not by theft. I know that those who first put them in words would not recognize them here. I am even fearful they would not agree with them. 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.