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Excerpt from The Life of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, Vol. 1 of 3: With Selections From His Correspondence, Diaries, Speeches, and Judgments
The true and real use of biography is to serve as a practical exposition and illustration, intel lectual and moral, of life and of human nature, showing how different in¿uences, and capacities, and dispositions, lead on to certain results, and objects, and attainments. It should conduce to point out the proper course to be followed and that to be avoided, and to afford at each turn a full and clear demonstration of the truths it dis closes. A mere dry narration of events is but a barren production, and serviceable only as a record of the facts it contains. The duty of the biographer is to trace and to illustrate these various connections and causes, whether on mind, on character, or on life; and on all occasions to induce suitable re¿ections and deductions from the circumstances detailed.
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