Excerpt from A Living Book in a Living AgeThat man is dead and doesn't know it. SO in a brief, cutting sentence a brilliant critic characterized a man who had wasted his vitality and was living out his years in dull lethargy, the mere husk Of the man he had once been. Peo ple differ vastly in this matter Of vitality. Some are vividly and contagiously alive, some have ¿ashes Of vital energy, and some seem to be curiously lifeless.Books are like people as respects this matter Of vitality. Some books are like stately cemeteries, dignified cities Of the dead. Some books suggest a throbbing, busy metropolis, there are signs Of life everywhere. The Bible thrills with Vital power. It has a sort Of stinging, inevitable vitality.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.