The Breath of Life
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 294pp. stated first edition (spine). published May 1915. from Preface: "As life nears its end wtih me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world. In these studies I fancy I am about as far from mastering the mystery as the ant which I saw this morning industriously exploring a small section of the garden walk is from getting a clear idea of the geography of the North American Continent. But the ant was occupied and was apparently happy, and she must have learned something about a small fraction of that part of the earth's surface." Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, mild toning/offset to endpapers, writing FFEP, text clean, binding tight. Item #3905
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