Anthony, Charles H.; Newman, John P. [introduction]. This, Our Life. Albany: Joel Munsell, 1876. [10190]
Russet cloth decorated in gilt & black, binding a bit dull and soiled, 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, light fraying to the ends & corner tips. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author with facsimile signature & tissue guard. xlix., 474 clean pp. with index, tight. Good. Hardcover.
"Under the head of This, Our Life, Professor Anthony has attempted a difficult task, but not unsuccessfully. Himself a scholar, a close observer, a careful thinker, an elegant and forcible writer, with a large experience with youth and manhood, he has given us a book which should be in every family, in every secular and religious school of learning, and in the library of men of all professions. His great theme is human life - its capacities, relations, issues, obligations, duties, mysteries, destinies. Both philosophy and religion, reason and revelation sustain his theory, that in each human life there is a Divine plan - a design, a purpose. His mission is to call the attention of mankind to this stupendous fact." - Introduction.
Charles Hartshorn Anthony (1812-1874), "a famous Albany teacher," who began lecturing at 15 years of age after graduating from the Troy (NY) academy. During his career he established several private schools, and was for some twenty years the principal of his Albany Classical Institute. He was a longstanding member of the State Street Presbyterian Church of Albany, New York.
There is a Memoir of the Author in the introductory section of this book.
