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Platform Echoes or Living Truths for Head and Heart By John Gough 1888
Platform Echoes or Living Truths for Head and Heart By John Gough 639 Pages Hard Cover 1888 Binding edge of cover is loose. Fully illustrated.
ON several occasions, to oblige English friends, I authorized the publication and corrected the proofs of notes taken during some of my public utterances. With these exceptions, for more than thirty years my words have been reported, printed, and sold with no regard to my wishes, without proper revision, and often with annoying and absurd mistakes.
I have come to the conclusion that I have some personal right to their oversight, and also to the time and manner of their appearance. In addition, every year for a long time past, requests from various quarters have been made for authorized copies of this or that public utterance.
One special inducement to submit them to the publisher has been the reception, to my surprise and pleasure, of many letters from Great Britain, United States, India, and Australia, from a few of which I extract such sentences as these : " I was induced by reading your speech to give up the drink, and begin a sober life, to which I have kept ever since." " I owe my position in life to reading one of your orations." (I should say here that the word oration was never given by me to anything I ever said in public.) From another letter I quote these words : " My whole family are abstainers from the fact that one of your printed speeches came into my hands at a critical time in my life." Respecting the notes on other topics than temperance, I have received such expressions as these : "Since I heard you I have tried to be a better woman." " The effect on me of your lecture was to make me earnestly desire to be better, to live better."
Fully sensible, as I am, of many faults and shortcomings in these records of the platform, I remember gratefully the sympathetic and encouraging words of a master of platform power, whose voice is now hushed in death, - Wendell Phillips, - who gave me many a kind and helpful word. Meeting him on a journey, and speaking of my lack of education and how much I felt it, he said in cordial tones, " Why, any scholar who hears you perceives at once your lack of educational training, so called," and then added with a smile, "But perhaps the world is all the better for that."
Thus encouraged, and for reasons before stated, I offer this quiver of unpolished arrows in the hope that they may accomplish more in right and desirable directions than they could in any previous fragmentary appearance ; only adding that though there must of necessity be repetition in the arguments, there is no repetition in the facts or incidents.
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