Excerpt from The Life of William Wilberforce, Vol. 1 of 2 The demand for a second edition of the Memoir of Wil berforce, has afforded an opportunity for revising a work which, undertaken and completed amid the anxieties and la bours of a most responsible profession, necessarily exhibited imperfections, of which none are more sensible than myself. Having received not only pleasure but improvement from the original work, and finding that none of our publishers were disposed to' undertake the issuing of an American edition, I endeavoured, by the omission of parts which could possess but little interest for an American reader, to bring it within the reach of th' The task proved a laborious one, owing to the f maintaining the connection while striking out some of t links of the chain. It is believed, however, nothing has omitted which was calculated to display the singleness o otive by which he was influenced, or the admirable perfecti of character, to the attainment of which this single eye led him. The many perusals of the Memoir which have been Necessary, have left on my mind an ever increasing estimate of its value; and if it may but be blessed in the second it has in the first, to the te moval of prejudice and the cohfirmation of faith, the labour which has been bestowed upon it will be abundantly recom peased. 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.