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Excerpt from The Kingdom of the Unselfish, or Empire of the Wise
That it will meet with hostile criticism from those who fail to apprehend its best meaning is quite likely. That it can do any serious harm, however, is not probable; not ionly because its motive is good, and because it is better to know the truth than to believe the unreal, but also because the human mind seems disposed to appro priate what is adapted to its condition of growth, and to refuse all that is beyond. There are other persons who will be able to appreciate the most of it; and these too, in all kindness, may find much to criticise adversely. The author has been continually conscious of such im perfection, and in excuse must reply that the work under taken needed to be done; there was no one else to do it; and he has done the best he could. Whatever comments, friendly or unfriendly, may point out unseen faults, willbe accepted, and turned to good account in the future, when there shall be opportunity. Regarding the various dogmatic statements that will be found throughout the following pages, it must be said there was no time for proving everything, and these were left to prove themselves while the justification of the book as a whole is trusted to justify this mode of pro ceeding. Whatever failure there is to give credit for ideas used that are not original has the same reason for a par tial excuse; another part will be found on page 139, and in the whole of the succeeding chapter; while it may also be said that they are mostly such as are already familiar to persons acquainted with the progress and present con dition of Science. For similar reasons, no better claim is made for anything else that is here presented. 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.
