Author: Samuel Butler

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-13

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9781440089695

Excerpt from The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Butler achieved for himself and the one which these Note Books SO fully and singularly exemplify. There is a kind of man whose sensations come at the dou ble, who must take them down as they fly by or lose them eternally. Butler's note-books were not kept for such a purpose. It was not his senses that were imperious for a scribe: it was his ruminations, his ideas. He was painter and musician as well as writer, and he was writer in the most general interpretation, but his chief characteristic was not, so to speak, sensuous impressionability. It was an incessant intellectual activity. He had the principle of stopping every where and anywhere to put down his notes, as the true painter will stop anywhere and everywhere to sketch, but the notes were not wild or woodland, they were memoranda in his end less discovery Of wisdom. Occasionally the spectacle of the world urged him to record emotion, and he observes that from the age of twelve the music Of his well-beloved Handel was never a day out of his head. But it was the Opinions and ideas he derived from experience that stirred him to write in his Note - Books. Experience did not so much enamor him as stimulate his mind. 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.