Louis Tracy
Louis Tracy was a British journalist and a prolific writer known for his contributions to fiction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into a well-to-do middle-class family in Liverpool, he received a varied education that included time at the French Seminary at Douai. Tracy began his career as a reporter for The Northern Echo in Darlington around 1884, eventually working for various newspapers in Cardiff and Allahabad. His journalistic experience informed his writing, allowing him to craft engaging narratives that captivated readers. Tracy's literary output was extensive, and he often wrote under pseudonyms such as Gordon Holmes and Robert Fraser, sometimes collaborating with fellow writer M. P. Shiel. His works encompassed a range of genres, including mystery, adventure, and romance, with notable titles like "The Final War" and "The Great Secret." His ability to weave intricate plots and develop compelling characters contributed to his popularity during his lifetime. Tracy's legacy lies in his role as a significant figure in early 20th-century fiction, influencing the genre with his adventurous storytelling and complex narratives.
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“I have previously reduced the whole science of logic to two facts.The first is that our perceptions being every thing for us, we areperfectly, completely, and necessarily sure of whatever we actually feel.The second is that consequently none of our judgments, separatelytaken, can be erroneous: inasmuch as we see one idea in another it isactually there; but their falsity, when it takes place, is purely relativeto anterior judgments, which we permit to subsist; and it consists inthis, that we believe the idea in which we perceive a new element tobe the same as that we have always had under the same sign, when itis really different, since the new element which we actually see thereis incompatible with some of those which we have previously seen;so that to avoid contradiction we must either take away the former ornot admit the latter.””
“...women are not delicate. I don't know why men invariably harbor that delusion...women are more steadfast, even hardier, than men. That is an essential, don't you see? The continuance of the race depends far more on the female than on the male.””
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