Excerpt from Our Manifold Nature: Stories From Life As in all else. We are growing and learning to walk, and must have room to tumble about in; if those who are left to find out for themselves how to do it have the most falls, they are also the strongest eventually. There is more to be done than our ancestors did, and more to find out than they ever discovered. Many thanks to them, nevertheless, for all that we owe them. 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.