[Methodist Essays] A Man, by Rev. J. D. Bell (1860)

Bell, J. D. A Man. Philadelphia: James Challen & Son, 1860. First Edition. [8442] Maroon publisher's cloth faded to brown, 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches, binding good with headband frayed, rest intact. 462 pp. with light foxing, 6 pp. publisher's catalogue, tight. Very good. Hardcover. A collection of essays on a wide variety of topics, held together by a general outline of the life of a man. Topics begin with The Senses, The Student, The Intellectual Side of Love, The Thinker, &c. and continue with The Thinker, Conversation, Wit and Laughter, Tears, Aspiration, Genius, The Discoverer, The Inventor, The Writer, and The Three Inspirations (Poet, Orator, Hero).The thoughts and advice given is quite practical and reasonable, and well-written. "It is better to be poor from loss of property, than to be poor from loss of health. Man was described by one of the Grecian philosophers, as 'a two-legged animal without feathers.' May I not describe a dyspeptic bookworm, as a two-legged animal witho