“This story of a beautiful, untiring life is worthy of consideration by every lover of truth.”—St. Paul Despatch.
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“Destined to take rank as one of the two or three most remarkable self-portrayals of a human life ever committed to posterity.”
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An Autobiography by Herbert Spencer.
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“It is rare, indeed, that a man who has so profoundly influenced the intellectual development of his age and generation has found time to record the history of his own life. And this Mr. Spencer has done so simply, so frankly, and with such obvious truth, that it is not surprising that Huxley is reported as having said, after reading it in manuscript, that it reminded him of the ‘Confessions’ of Rousseau, freed from every objectionable taint.”—New York Globe.
“As interesting as fiction? There never was a novel so interesting as Herbert Spencer’s ‘An Autobiography’.”—New York Herald.
“It is rich in suggestion and observation, of wide significance and appeal in the sincerity, the frankness, the lovableness of its human note.”—New York Mail and Express.