Excerpt from The World of Suckers Some readers will not understand this book, because it does not deal with right and wrong. If the reader will take a retrospect of all philosophy, both religious and scientific, he will notice one theory that mankind is good and evil, and another theory that mankind is a mass of energy. This is as much as to say that men are going towards Heaven and Hell, from one standpoint; from another, that they may, as wilful creatures, disregard both. Men do disregard both, while pretending to fear them. Otherwise he could not succeed in the uproarious prosperity of this age. Herein I am concerned with what man does, not what he thinks he does nor what he piously ought to do. 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.