THE REAL ROBERT BURNS
BY
J. L. HUGHES, LL.D.
Author of ‘Dickens as an Educator,’ &c.
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| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Foreword | 7 | |
| I. | The True Values of Biography | 9 |
| II. | The Educational Advantages of Burns | 17 |
| III. | The Characteristics of Burns | 35 |
| IV. | Burns was a Religious Man | 63 |
| V. | Burns the Democrat | 99 |
| VI. | Burns and Brotherhood | 126 |
| VII. | Burns a Revealer of Pure Love | 135 |
| VIII. | Burns a Philosopher | 167 |
| IX. | The Development of Burns | 197 |
The writer of the following pages learned years ago to reverence thememories of Burns and Dickens. Frequently hearing one or the otherattacked from platform or pulpit, and believing both to be greatinterpreters of the highest things taught by Christ, as the basis of thedevelopment of humanity towards the Divine, he resolved that some day hewould try to help the world to understand correctly the work of these twogreat men. His book, Dickens as an Educator, has helped to give a newconception of Dickens, as an educational pioneer and as a philosopher. Thepurpose of this book is to show that Burns was we