Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Toussaint read everything; he follows no methodical program of study, but he gradually educated himself from all sorts of sources. 'His favorite books' says Wendell Phillips, 'were the works of Epictetus, Raynal, and Plutarch, as well as military memoirs. Having learned the properties of various wild plants, he became a country doctor.'"