How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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His Is The Spartan Heroism, The Inflexibility Of The Roman,
The Enduring Resolution Of The Anglo-Saxon - Never To Relinquish His
Work, Though His Heart Yearns For Home; Never To Surrender His
Obligations Until He Can Write Finis To His Work.
But you may take any point in Dr. Livingstone's character, and
analyse it carefully, and I would challenge any man to find a
fault in it.
He is sensitive, I know; but so is any man of a high
mind and generous nature. He is sensitive on the point of being
doubted or being criticised. An extreme love of truth is one of
his strongest characteristics, which proves him to be a man of
strictest principles, and conscientious scruples; being such, he
is naturally sensitive, and shrinks from any attacks on the
integrity of his observations, and the accuracy of his reports.
He is conscious of having laboured in the course of geography and
science with zeal and industry, to have been painstaking, and as
exact as circumstances would allow. Ordinary critics seldom take
into consideration circumstances, but, utterly regardless of the
labor expended in obtaining the least amount of geographical
information in a new land, environed by inconceivable dangers and
difficulties, such as Central Africa presents, they seem to take
delight in rending to tatters, and reducing to nil, the fruits of
long years of labor, by sharply-pointed shafts of ridicule and
sneers.
Livingstone no doubt may be mistaken in some of his conclusions
about certain points in the geography of Central Africa, but he
is not so dogmatic and positive a man as to refuse conviction.
He certainly demands, when arguments in contra are used in
opposition to him, higher authority than abstract theory.
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