ABSTRACT
Why does a man feel any degree of eagerness to expose his character to the world? For the most part it is a disclosure made to enemies, who will study it for the purposes of degradation, and to find, if the writer shall have acquired any degree of applause, that it was impossible he should have owed it to his merit. Such a disclosure is however of high value; it adds to the science of the human mind, and, by the operation of comparison, enables each reader to make an estimate of himself.
