[Gutenberg 62939] • Essays Irish and American

Excerpt from Essays: Irish and American

When a belief rests on nothing you cannot knock away its foundations, he says, perhaps half slyly thinking how secure were some of his own best sayings from attack. I refuse to argue over or criticise the philosophy of the man who wrote that, for I do not know how to get at him. I am content to enjoy, as I am sure his friends will, and new friends also who will be made by a reading of this book, and who will be grateful to Mrs. Bellinger of New York, who cut out and preserved from vari ous papers these essays as they appeared; for the writer, unlike the kitten, had no interest in chasing his own tail, and had forgotten what he had written or where it had appeared. Gathered in one book these essays reflect a light upon each other and re create for us a personality which has deserted Dublin, but which none who knew would wish to forget.

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