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Why Biography Often Fails to Reveal the Man

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 16, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 17.

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Why Biography Often Fails to Reveal the Man

No department of literature is so false as biography. The object is, not to let down the hero; and consequently what is most human, most genuine, most characteristic in his history is excluded. Sometimes, one anecdote will let us into the secret of a man's soul, more than all the prominent events of his life.