Teks asli (Inggris)

E-Text created by Martin Adamson martin@grassmarket.freeserve.co.uk Father and Son A study of two temperaments by Edmund Gosse Der Glaube ist wie der Liebe: Er Lasst sich nicht erzwingen. Schopenhauer PREFACE AT the present hour, when fiction takes forms so ingenious and so specious, it is perhaps necessary to say that the following narrative, in all its parts, and so far as the punctilious attention of the writer has been able to keep it so, is scrupulously true