Excerpt from The Penalties of Taste: And Other EssaysThe struggle for existence among all liv ing things must go on. It has probably always been going on, and we need not look to see it stop. With the human family the struggle is not always for the same thing, but it is always for something, for property, shelter, warmth, for personal likes, and for manifold real and imagined joys, for phys ical existence against the enemies of the body. Each class and cult has ambitions somewhat different from every other, but they are alike in seeking the things desirable for the exigent needs of self.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.