Anthony, Charles H. This, Our Life

Anthony, Charles H.; Newman, John P. [introduction]. This, Our Life. Albany: Joel Munsell, 1876. [10190] Russet cloth decorated in gilt & black, binding a bit dull and soiled, 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, light fraying to the ends & corner tips. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author with facsimile signature & tissue guard. xlix., 474 clean pp. with index, tight. Good. Hardcover. "Under the head of This, Our Life, Professor Anthony has attempted a difficult task, but not unsuccessfully. Himself a scholar, a close observer, a careful thinker, an elegant and forcible writer, with a large experience with youth and manhood, he has given us a book which should be in every family, in every secular and religious school of learning, and in the library of men of all professions. His great theme is human life - its capacities, relations, issues, obligations, duties, mysteries, destinies. Both philosophy and religion, reason and revelation sustain his theory, that in each human l