Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Author's intent

While reading the Preface to Farrar's The Life of Christ I ran across this gem:
I have never wholly lost sight of the fact that I had to work with no higher object than that thousands, who have even fewer opportunities than myself, might be the better enabled to read that one Book, beside which even the best and profoundest treatises are nothing better than poor and stammering fragments of imperfect commentary.
If only every author took such a view.