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of inner life,intense enough to be worth recreating.I say ‘inner life'because the outwardevents of those years are not themselvesmy theme.My theme is what it felt liketo be living through them.It is an attemptto trace the thread of an inner life morethan usually isolated from the world andto re-enact those moments which have arenovating virtue.”  \nBasil Willey's own words define thescope of his autobiography.The presentstory ends at the point of transition be-tween youth and manhood,at the end ofWorld War I.The war,in which Profes-sor Willey served in France,provides abackground to his descriptions of theseformative experiences  \nBorn in 1897,the year of Victoria'sGolden Jubilee,Professor Willey pointsout that he is one of those whose patternof life,formed long before the greatwar of 1914-1918,has had to be unmadeand remade again and again.\"Not onlyhas our whole way of life been revolu-tionized more than once,but all our basicassumptions have been riddled by anal-ysis,and our personal,social and ethicalpresuppositions questioned.All this hasnot made for complacent living.”  \nSpots of Time is a quest for an identity,and a warm and moving and often humor-ous recollection of a life that has beenlived intensely by a scholar and a thought-ful man.  \n# SPOTS OF TIME\n\nBy the same Author  \n*  \nTHE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BACKGROUND  \nTHE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BACKGROUND  \nNINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES  \nMORE NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES  \nDARWIN AND BUTLER(The Hibbert Lectures 1959)  \nTHE ENGLISH MORALISTS  \nSPOTS OFTIME  \n# A Retrospect of the Years1897-1920\n\nbyBasil Willey  \nw.W.NORTON &COMPANY,INC.  \nNew York  \nBASIL WILLEY 1965  \nThere are in our existence spots of time,That with distinct pre-eminence retainA renovating virtue...  \nWORDSwORTH,THE PRELUDE","cbCaih010EUWweQv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaih010EUWweQv","pdf",14168388,260,"English","# Spots of Time\n## Overview of the Autobiography\n## Historical Context 1897-1920\n## Themes of Identity and 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