Life and religion : an aftermath from the writings of the Right Honourable Professor F. Max Müller

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An Aftermath from the Writings of the Right Honourable Professor

F, MAX MULLER BY HIS WIFE

New York

Doubleday, Page & Company

Copyright, 1905, by

Doubleday, Page & Company

Published, September, 1905

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Preface

This book has been prepared in accordance with a wish expressed by many known and unknown admirers of my husband's writings who desire to possess in portable form the various striking passages in his different works and in the "Life and Letters" that have specially appealed to them.

I have taken the opportunity of adding extracts from many private letters, and from the writings he left unfinished — passages that would otherwise have remained unknown to any but his own family and a few intimate friends.

Those who have read the "Life and Letters" do not need to be told that Max Miiller entertained from his earliest years the firm conviction that all is wisely ordered in this life, "all for our real good, though we do not always see it, and though we cannot venture to fathom the wisdom guiding our steps." To other readers the unswerving trust and faith shown in these extracts may be a revelation, for he rarely conversed on such subjects. Yet this trust and faith gave him strength through the bitter struggles of his early life, taught vi PREFACE

him resignation during the years when the dearest wish of his heart seemed unattainable, supported him later when those whom he loved tenderly were taken from him, and upheld him in his long and depressing illness.

It is my earnest desire that this little book may prove a help and comfort to those who endure like trials, and that it may strengthen those whose path in life now stretches before them, filled with sunshine, to meet the sorrows that inevitably await us all.

Georgina Max Muller.

June ii, 1905.