Excerpt from The Wider Hope: Essays and Strictures on the Doctrine and Literature of Future Punishment A short explanation is necessary to enable the reader to understand how this book has grown. Thirty-seven years ago, while engaged in the Editorship of the new series of T he Instructor (my Father's Weekly Magazine), I had frequent conversations with thomas DE quincey on matters relating to the Future State. 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.