Quote Originally Posted by slapout9 View Post
Didn;t CvC die before he finished the book???? didn't his wife write a letter warning about the manuscript being nothing but "A Great Mass"?? just asking?
Very true and there is also the issue of the "revisions" he never carried out and the re-writes he never did - so as a work it is far from perfect. It is also strange in the more than the 150 years since his death, no one else has done better.