Excerpt from Saint Augustine: And His Age Of one of the most famous saints of the Christian Church by the light of psychology rather than by that of theology. There are many biographies of St. Augustine - though our own literature is singularly poor in this respect but all are constructed on the perverse type which is followed by Augus tine himself in his seductive Confessions. When one brings to the story a saving tinc ture of Pelagianism, the distribution of light and shade seems to fall under more famil iar laws. 1 have tried to exhibit the devel opment of Augustine as an orderly mental and moral growth, and to present it in har monious relation to the many other inter esting figures and groups on the broad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.