Excerpt from The Great Slighted Fortune WE live in unexampled years. The current period is one of amazing human intensities, and of astonishing triumphs of energy and enterprise. In no by-gone time was there such successful. Pursuit of science, such crowned Inventiveness, such multiplication of advan tages on the material side of civilization. And yet few are they that are becoming more excellent, more con tented, more serene, -more happy. Men are immersed in the senses. Health is either sacrificed to utilitarian concentration, or immolated on the altar of Fashion. Individuality that key to freedom from mental mendi cancy - is lost in imitation. Frivolity renders thought impotent and sentiment shallow. Assumed refinement has the place of genuine courtesy. People (as saith Tennyson) whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame. There is an unfortunate weaken ing of the power of imagination, as well as of the power of faith - those two great sources of motives to excel lence of character and perfectness of life. Politics, philosophy, art, literature, economics, social life, all seem pointed toward the vale of the Salt Sea, rather than toward the Olive mountains. 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.