Canst thou blame
My course? I tell thee, thirst for human laud
Impelled me not: ’twas my sole-thoughted aim
To render Man, my brother, worthy his high name!”
—Empedocles, in “The Purgatory of Suicides,”
Stanzas 35-37.
“Few shrewder, kindlier men have fought the battle of life.”—London Quarterly Review.
“He is a man of vast reading, and indomitable courage. His Autobiography is a remarkable book, well worth reading.“—Editor of ”Charles Kingsley’s Life and Letters.”