The Ordinary Man and the Extraordinary Thing by Harold Begbie

The Ordinary Man and the Extraordinary Thing

by Harold Begbie

This book was published by Hodder and Stoughton New York George H. Doran Company. 

PREFACE

IN this book the endeavour is made to bring home to the minds of men one of those great and central truths of life which are so often ignored in the pressure of surface existence. This particular truth may be expressed in various ways :

The veritable life of a man is lived, not visibly and externally, but in the impenetrable solitude of his soul.

Profound and extraordinary changes of soul are experienced by the most ordinary of men.

Conversion is not generally a sudden and catastrophic experience, but for most men a gradual and imperceptible process of development.

Without religion, the moral and physical progress of those great masses of humanity who carry the fortunes of civilisation can never be assured.

The narratives which form the main body of this book are true stories of the lives of men; and they witness, in the midst of all their differences and all the variety of their circumstances, to the truth of Materlinck's assertion that in this present time "the pressure of the soul has increased among mankind."

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