Excerpt from Questions of War Peace Marryat is a man who, without being a pessimist, is subject to pessimistic moods. Some internal spring Of scepticism breaks out within him from time to time and sends waves that submerge for a while all his most cherished beliefs, his beliefs in other men, in himself and in the eternal meaning Of things. But the flood always recedes and the convictions emerge once more, unchanged, perhaps a little blurred. 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.