Excerpt from Thomas Chalmers: His Life and Its Lessons Indeed, genius has an odd habit of turning up where it is not looked for at all. When you want flowers of more than ordinary beauty, you seek them in the garden, of course 5 you know that such things are to be found, not on the common, where they are exposed to every Wind that blows, but in places where the soil is good, and where they have had the benefit of care and culture. It is natural to suppose that a like law should rule in human life; - that is, that great men should always rise in localities Where the outward conditions are favourable in cities, for10 from his birth To his intellectual awakening. 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.