# Authors and their public in ancient times

Author: Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930

Genre: Category: History - Ancient

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72922

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Authors+and+their+public+in+ancient+times+Putnam&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

WHEN Faust was puzzling his brain concerning the everlasting problem of the nature and origin of things, we find him questioning the utterance of the Hebrew seer: “In the beginning was the Word.” “No,” he says, “this must be wrong. We cannot place the word first in the scale of causation. The writer should have said ‘In the beginning was the Thought.’” On further reflection, this statement also seemed to him inadequate. Is it the Thought that creates and directs all things? Shall we not rather say “In the beginning was the Power?” Even this interpretation, however, fails to stand the test, and, after further wrestling, Faust presents as his solution of the problem the statement, “In the b...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-and-their-public-in-ancient-times-72922/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-and-their-public-in-ancient-times-72922/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-and-their-public-in-ancient-times-72922/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-and-their-public-in-ancient-times-72922/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-and-their-public-in-ancient-times-72922/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/authors-and-their-public-in-ancient-times-72922/chapters/4/index.md)