Excerpt from The Flight of Icarus: An Idyl of Printing-House Square It may be urged that the thoughts which the author has attempted to convey in this volume have already found expression in more artistic plots, in better words, in more convincing argument. He can only reply that, as the fact of other men having breathed before him does not discourage his consuming his share of the free air, so he, too, perforce, adds his expres sion of thoughts, appreciating that many may have said the same thing before, and may have said it more aptly, but still holding to the one main claim that no one before could possi bly have had the same particular attributive thought, as he here puts it into form and ex pression. 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.