Excerpt from The Hand of God and Other Posthumous Essays: Together With Some Reprinted Papers Those who knew him in the fireside intimacy which reveals a man will recognise true assessment of him in this tribute with which his old friend, the late Professor F. York Powell, enriched the Memoir published Shortly after Allen's death He was one of the best and truest friends a man could have - generous, fair-minded, and unforgetful of the old comradeship; so that, though he was always able down to the last to make new friends, I do not think that he ever lost his Old friends, save those whom death too soon removed. I do not see how such a straightforward, sympathetic, enthusiastic nature as Allen's could have passed through the world without influencing those with whom he came in Contact very definitely for the better. Few men I have known well have cared more for the essentials than Grant Allen. Truth, justice, pity, love, gratitude, and sympathy were to him throughout his life real things to be upheld at all hazards. His faith was always great' his hope was continually and wonderfully sustained; his charity was invincible. 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.