Excerpt from The Rubicon Is Passed!: The Science of Development of the Human Family, Discovered, Classified, Systemized, and ExplainedThis feeling that prevents the best gifts of persons from being appreciated, and that underrates them at home, is a plain case of the lack of knowledge - hit is a feeling'the'au thor is at a loss to find words to describe f It must be:a combination of jealousy, prejudice, and misdirected spiritual gifts, and such a disposition m persons prevails at the present time to an alarming extent, because it prevents almost all persons from cultivating and improvang their talents. And as the Author is aware of such a state of things existing to oppose the introduction of his discovery, he'expects'therefore it Will meet with opposition: that some will call it a humbugi others, delusion, others, imagination, and others Will {say the Author is insane.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.