Hillel Samson
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 46
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Excerpt from Sir Humphrey Gilbert: A Record A Surmise This short essay, coup de plume, might we call it? - demands perhaps a word of introduction. It is, or purports to be, culled from the transactions of a society of Truth-seekers, the Zetetical Society, to give it the style, selected with much care by a group of students, once upon a time. Let us leave it at that, in respect of the framework in which the argument is set, since fact or make-believe as to the setting is immaterial, when compared with the subject matter which is presented; that indeed springs from the solid ground of recorded fact, and, when it leaves that ground and in its flight takes the realm of surmise, the drift, the objective of the argument is always the real - let us hope that it finds. The essay therefore would be regarded and judged, not as a random cast of fancy, but as the serious endeavour of one who would still like to count himself a Truth seeker and once again a member of the Zetetical Society - "Sed revocare gradum..". About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.