# Six Major Prophets

SIX MAJOR PROPHETS
Whoever dies without recognizing the prophet of his time dies the death of a pagan.
Mohammedan proverb.
SIX MAJOR PROPHETS
BY
EDWIN E. SLOSSON, M.S., Ph.D.
LITERARY EDITOR OF "THE INDEPENDENT" ASSOCIATE IN THE COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AUTHOR OF "MAJOR PROPHETS OF TO-DAY," ETC.
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1917
Copyright, 1917, By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published, April, 1917
Norwood Press Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Gushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
TO MY SON PRESTON WILLIAM SLOSSON WHOSE THOUGHTS AND PHRASES I HAVE MORE FREELY INCORPORATED THAN I AM WILLING TO ACKNOWLEDGE ELSEWHERE THAN ON THIS PAGE, THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED
CONTENTS
* CHAPTERPAGE
* Preface................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................vii
* IGeorge Bernard Shaw................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1
* IIH. G. Wells................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................56
* IIIG. K. Chesterton................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................129
* IVF. C. S. Schiller................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................190
* VJohn Dewey................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................234
* VIRudolf Eucken................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................276
LIST OF PORTRAITS
* George Bernard Shaw................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Frontispiece
* H. G. Wells................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page  98
* G. K. Chesterton................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page" 174
* F. C. S. Schiller................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page" 196
* John Dewey................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page" 252
* Rudolf Eucken................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page" 290
To write a book about a man who has written books about himself is an impertinence which only an irresistible charm of manner can carry off. The unpardonable way of doing it, and the commonest, is to undertake to tell the public what a writer has already told them himself, and tell it worse or tell it wrong.
G. B. SHAW.
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