Excerpt from The Book of Robert Burns, Vol. 1 of 3: Genealogical and Historical Memoirs of the Poet His Associates and Those Celebrated in His Writings Robert burns came forth with a special mission to his country and to humanity, by illustrating the doctrine of the Divine Father hood, and the consequent brotherhood of man also by enforcing the duty of cherishing the virtues of sincerity, sympathy, and benevolence. Wherein in the exercise of his great function he struggled and fell short, and wherein he triumphed, it is our chief object in the present work to denote or signalize. 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.