Excerpt from The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Vol. 28: July to December, 1878 In that very amusing and suggestive child' 8 book, Alice tlrrouglz tire Looking Glass, there is a nightmare kind of vi sion of a headlong race between Alice and the Red Queen to reach the eighth square, ' in which, after long running, so fast that the wind whistled in poor Alice's ears and almost blew the hair off her head, ' they find themselves in exactly the same place whence they seemed to start, it appearing from the Red Queen's explanation that in her country it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.' Some of our modern philosophers have beaten these runners all to nothing for in their breathless race for the eighth square of popularity and paradox, they have run so very fast that they have landed them selves, high and dry, about two thousand years backwards in the philosophy of Democritus and Epicurus. 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.