Excerpt from Intimations of Immortality in the Sonnets of Shakspere Or an aberration of some particular time, place, or person. The whole field Of selection is open, the only demands being candor, scholarship, and power of presentation. Yet notwithstanding these wise provisions for diversity, the twelve lectures already given largely agree. On the whole, and with a few partial exceptions, immortality has in them a definite meaning and is held to be highly probable. And how could it be otherwise? Truth is one, error many. A group of eager explorers, all stirred by the single desire to know what the facts are, must tend to some uniformity Of result. Tharis the justi fication of intellectual freedom. Its issue is not looseness, but solidity. 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.