Excerpt from Images of Good and Evil All is vain. We live, and living is 'the pain We die of while we live. The earth Was made in some celestial mirth, Not for our pleasure. I, who seem To have some memory of a dream, I know not when, I know not where, Dream not, remember, and despair. 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.