Letters of Oswin Creighton, 1883-1918 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Letters of Oswin Creighton, 1883-1918 (Classic Reprint) written by Oswin Creighton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters of Oswin Creighton, 1883-1918 I have put together these selections from Oswin Creighton's many letters, in the hope that those who came across him during some part of his full and varied life may be glad to know more about one who, whatever they may have thought of him, must at least have attracted their attention. It has seemed best not to attempt a regular memoir, but to let him disclose himself in his own words. He liked to pour out in his letters the thoughts and ideas which crowded his active mind. But he said again and again that what he wrote must not be taken as considered opinions, that very likely in a few days or even hours, he would think quite differently. So his letters must not be thought to contain carefully weighed expressions of opinion. They express the mood and thought of the moment, but at the same time they reveal the man who wrote them. They show an eager soul, a fearless seeker after truth, frank, impulsive, spontaneous, longing to give affection, delighting in the affection he received. The circumstances of his life, as well as his own inquiring and critical disposition, made it impossible for him to be content with accepted opinions or conventional methods of thought and action. Life, whether in a Notting Dale slum, on the Canadian prairie, or on the bloodstained battlefields of Gallipoli and France, brought to him an endless series of questionings and problems. These he always stated fearlessly, for he was absolutely sincere. He did not live to work out the solution of his problems. His letters must remain as an unfinished story. But his statement of the questionings forced upon him in the midst of experiences, searching, testing, often terrible, may help others to go on working to find the answer. It is sometimes even more illuminating to ask than to answer a question. Ever a learner, a truth-seeker himself, he never wanted to impose his opinion on others, only to help them to think out things for themselves. 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.