Excerpt from The Rhythm of Life: And Other Essays It seems fit that Shelley and the author of the Imitation should both have been keen and Simple enough to perceive these flights, and to guess at the order of this periodicity. Both souls were in close touch with the Spirits of their several worlds, and no deliberate human rules, no infractions of the liberty and law of the universal movement, kept from them the knowledge of recurrences. Eppur si muove. They knew that presence does not exist with out absence; they knew that What is just upon its flight of farewell is already on its long path of return. They knew that what is approaching to the very touch is hastening towards departure. '0 wind, ' cried Shelley, in autumn. 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.