Excerpt from Looking Forward, and an Answer to Looking BackwardThe imperfect nature of man characterizes, as a matter of course, all human institutions and it is t easiest thing in the world, by looking backward, find fault with living men as well as with the pres state of affairs and to build air castles inhabited angels only.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.