Excerpt from Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin, Vol. 2I'r was Matthew Arnold who said of Mr. Godkin that he was a typical specimen of the Irishman of culture. The Celtic temperament was there: the spontaneity, the large impulse, the vivacity, the joy of combat. Not even the mystic element was wanting, a brooding strain, a touch of the Ober mensch he half laughingly believed in omens and presentments. Thus we find him writing: When I woke, I was in great grief over Mrs. Gumey's death, of which I thought I had just heard the news. This dream about Mrs. Gurney has fright ened me a little. I have had some very striking dreams, and am always impressed by a vivid one All, however, was steadied and controlled by the widest outlook upon history and upon life. In Mr. Godkin was strangely blended the philosopher and the man of action. Oi unusual social charm, gladly warming both hands at the fire of life, he was also given to detached and deep and sometimes melancholy re¿ection. A phrase of his own in a letter to Norton was shrewdly self descriptive I unfortunately cannot live in the.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.