Excerpt from Practical Thoughts for the Old and the YoungIt would be very difficult for me to answer the general question being asked by the world whether or not books grow in usefulness and power as they multiply. This one thing we doubt not, that books in¿uence our lives. They educate us for good or bad.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.