Excerpt from Time, the Avenger, Vol. 1 of 3 Must I then forward only look at death? Backward I turn mine eye, and find him there. Man is a self-survivor every year. The enterprise I am about to undertake is the most difficult of any one I have as yet attempted, and possibly to the mere novel rea der may prove the least interesting and attrae tive. 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.