Excerpt from Lescar, the Universalist, Vol. 1 of 3 I have wondered over the hidden threads of their varied histories. Over their links of union, their currents of influence, and all the twinings and intertwinings, that made up the tale of their chequered lives. My book is the velvet background in which my portraits are sunk; the portraits I bring one by one before you; the hidden current of mutual influence is that subtle thread with which fate weaves the story of uniting through varied lives. The mutual influence of life over life, is in our day, wide-spread and far reaching. 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.