Excerpt from Edward Carpenter: His Ideas and IdealsThe necessity for space and time to work this out grew so strong that in April of this year I threw up my lecturing employment. Moreover, 'another necessity had come upon me which demanded the latter step - the necessity namely for an open - air life and manual work. I could not finally argue with this any more than with the other, I had to give in and obey.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.