Excerpt from The Golden Book of John Owen: Passages From the Writings of the Rev. John Owen, M.A., D.D., Sometime Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Dean of Christ Church, Chosen and Edited, With a Study of His Life and Age Primarily, I suppose, it is to this restriction of outlook and interest that one must ascribe the modern neglect, or at least the very moderate esteem, of Owen. V oild, men say of him as Pascal said of Pere Thomassin, voih'z un bonhomme qui est terriblement savant, man's gui n'a gue're d'esprit. Esprit has come to mean so much to-day. Its absence, particularly in religious writings, is such a handicap even upon the stoutest and the loudest. Our language is said to have no equivalent for the French term ennui. Perhaps not. But if we can not translate it, we can illustrate it sadly from our literature as well as from our social habits. 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.