The Genius of Solitude.
THE SOLITUDES OF NATURE AND OF MAN; or, The Loneliness of Human Life. By Wm. Rounseville Alger.
CONTENTS.
The Solitudes of Nature.
The Solitudes of Man.
The Morals of Solitude.
Sketches of Lonely Characters: or, Personal Illustrations of the Good and Evil of Solitude.
Summary of the Subject.
In one handsome volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price $2.00.
“This volume is the result of much investigation, much meditation, and much experience; and is very comprehensive in its scope.... The author has shown the influence of solitude on every grade of mind and character, has discriminated its beneficent form and its morbid action, and has shown how it nurtures lofty thoughts as well as how it pampers self-will, and, in the throng of his personal illustrations, has indicated its effect on representative men of genius in almost every department of human effort.”—Boston Transcript.
“We know of no work like it, and question whether any of its size has appeared in this generation with an equal amount of intellectual enrichment and stimulus, moral nutriment, and invaluable ethical instruction.”—The Liberal Christian.
“This book is a worthy mate to Burton’s famous Anatomy of Melancholy. The fortunate reader may learn from it how to win the benefits and shun the evils of being alone.”—N. Y. Express.
“We envy the heart of no one who, unmoved, and with tearless eye, can read them (The Solitude of the Ruin and the Solitude of Death).”—West. Missionary.
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