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Excerpt from The Influence of Christianity Upon National Character: Illustrated by the Lives and Legends of the English Saints, Being the Bampton Lectures, Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1903
There are few more unpleasant, or more constant, additions to modern literature than those which contain morsels of trivial and unnecessary autobiography from uninteresting and unimportant persons. And yet I am unable to resist the temptation to make my contribution to this rubbish-heap, because I feel that these Lectures need a word of apology and explanation.
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