Father and Son: a study of two temperaments

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Father and Son, by Edmund GosseThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Father and SonAuthor: Edmund GosseRelease Date: November 28, 2004 [eBook #2540]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FATHER AND SON***E-Text created by Martin Adamson martin@grassmarket.freeserve.co.ukFather and SonA study of two temperamentsby Edmund GosseDer Glaube ist wie der Liebe:Er Lasst sich nicht erzwingen.SchopenhauerPREFACEAT the present hour, when fiction takes forms so ingenious and so specious, it is perhaps necessary to say that thefollowing narrative, in all its parts, and so far as the punctilious attention of the writer has been able to keep it so, isscrupulously true. If it were not true, in this strict sense, to publish it would be to trifle with all those who may be induced toread it. It is offered to them as a document, as a record of educational and religious conditions which, having passedaway, will never return. In this respect, as the diagnosis of a dying Puritanism, it is hoped that the narrative will not bealtogether without significance.It offers, too, in a subsidiary sense, a study of the development of moral and intellectual ideas during the progress ofinfancy. These have been closely and ...