Excerpt from The Dance of Life: An Answer to the "Dance of Death"And if, in following the author, I am forced to plunge into a Stygian stream of fetid impurity, my readers cannot expect that I shall pass through it wholly without soil. But as the external gar ments of language, however repulsive, will not sully the whiteness of the soul, I need make little apology to my read ers for any forced infringement on the domain of the indelicate. Lest my re marks upon the author himself, however.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.