ABSTRACT

Such an exposition ought to have a certain value

of its own, but my real motive is to help the

younger student to " read Green " for himself. In

the ordinary course of tutorial work it has been

found that, to many men, Green is not easy read-

ing. The sterling honesty which made him so

anxiously painstaking in writing his sentences, lest

they should express more than seemed to him

the exact truth, has, for its effect, that the reader

experiences something of the same mental effort.

Those who felt his personal influence need no

further help or stimulus in reading his books, but