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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ON the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his
family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various
papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up;
and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in
England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to
reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing alone, shorn of that
other matter which was at once its occasion and its justification,
so large an account of a man so little known may seem to a stranger
out of all proportion. But Jenkin was a man much more remarkable
than the mere bulk or merit of his work approves him. It was in the
world, in the commerce of friendship, by his brave attitude towards
life, by his high moral value and unwearied intellectual effort,
that he struck the minds of his contemporaries. His was an
individual figure, such as authors delight to draw, and all men to
read of, in the pages of a novel. His was a face worth painting for
its own sake. If the sitter shall not seem to have justified the
portrait, if Jenkin, after his death, shall not continue to make
new friends, the fault will be altogether mine.
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