Excerpt from Illusions and Disillusions, Touching Upon Topics in Every Day Life The essays in this book have been selected from my writings which have appeared daily in the Oklahoman during the past two years. For the most part, I have chosen the essays which have brought me the widest response from my readers, those that have impelled readers to say to me, I have had the very same thoughts, though I did not put them into so many words. In a single sentence we have the function of the writer - to put other persons' ideas, thoughts and aspi rations into definite, readable form. Writers have no monopoly on thoughts and ideas - which are the com mon property of mankind. Many of the most vital thoughts in this volume have come to me from others, who gave them out, consciously or unconsciously. Thoughts and ideas come from everywhere. Really, we live in a surging sea of thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.