SIX MAJOR PROPHETS

Whoever dies without recognizing the prophet of
his time dies the death of a pagan.

Mohammedan proverb.

SIX MAJOR
PROPHETS

BY

EDWIN E. SLOSSON, M.S., Ph.D.

LITERARY EDITOR OF "THE INDEPENDENT"
ASSOCIATE IN THE COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
AUTHOR OF "MAJOR PROPHETS OF TO-DAY," ETC.

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BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1917

Copyright, 1917,
By Little, Brown, and Company.


All rights reserved

Published, April, 1917

Norwood Press
Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Gushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

TO MY SON
PRESTON WILLIAM SLOSSON
WHOSE THOUGHTS AND PHRASES
I HAVE MORE FREELY INCORPORATED
THAN I AM WILLING TO ACKNOWLEDGE
ELSEWHERE THAN ON THIS PAGE,
THIS VOLUME
IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED

CONTENTS

  1. CHAPTERPAGE
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    vii
  3. I
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    1
  4. II
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    56
  5. III
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    129
  6. IV
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    190
  7. V
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    234
  8. VI
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    276

LIST OF PORTRAITS

  1. George Bernard Shaw
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    Frontispiece
  2. H. G. Wells
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    Page  98
  3. G. K. Chesterton
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    Page" 174
  4. F. C. S. Schiller
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    Page" 196
  5. John Dewey
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    Page" 252
  6. Rudolf Eucken
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    Page" 290

To write a book about a man who has written books about himself is an impertinence which only an irresistible charm of manner can carry off. The unpardonable way of doing it, and the commonest, is to undertake to tell the public what a writer has already told them himself, and tell it worse or tell it wrong.

G. B. SHAW.


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