CONTENTS. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. CHAPTER I. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON Title: Philip Gilbert Hamerton Author: Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al Edition: 10 Language: English E-text prepared by Charles Aldarondo, Tiffany Vergon, Tonya Allen, Charles Franks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTONAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY1834-1858 AND A MEMOIR BY HIS WIFE1858-1894 "Intellectual living is not so much an accomplishment as a state or condition of the mind in which it seeks earnestly for the highest and purest truth…. If we often blunder and fail for want of perfect wisdom and clear light, have we not the inward assurance that our aspiration has not been all in vain, that it has brought us a little nearer to the Supreme Intellect whose effulgence draws us while it dazzles?"—The Intellectual Life. |